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Review
. 2023 Mar 9:14:1118564.
doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1118564. eCollection 2023.

Quality evaluation of metabolic and bariatric surgical guidelines

Zi-Han Qin  1 , Xin Yang  2 , Ya-Qi Zheng  1 , Li-Ya An  3 , Ting Yang  3 , Yu-Lu Du  3 , Xiao Wang  3 , Shu-Han Zhao  1 , Hao-Han Li  1 , Cheng-Kai Sun  1 , Da-Li Sun  4 , Yue-Ying Lin  3
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Quality evaluation of metabolic and bariatric surgical guidelines

Zi-Han Qin et al. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). .

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the quality of surgical guidelines on bariatric/metabolic surgery.

Methods: Four independent reviewers used the AGREE II (The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II) tool to assess the methodological quality of the included guidelines and conducted a comparative analysis of the main recommendations for surgical methods of these guidelines.

Results: Nine surgical guidelines were included in this study. Five articles with AGREE II scores over 60% are worthy of clinical recommendation. The field of rigor of development was relatively low, with an average score of 50.82%. Among 15 key recommendations and the corresponding best evidence in the guidelines, only 4 key recommendations were grade A recommendations.

Conclusions: The quality of metabolic and bariatric guidelines is uneven, and there is much room for improvement.

Keywords: bariatric; bariatric surgery; guidelines; metabolic surgery; recommendations.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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