Guidelines Recommending That Clinicians Advise Patients on Lifestyle Changes: A Popular but Questionable Approach to Improve Public Health

Minna Johansson¹, Amanda Niklasson², Loai Albarqouni³, Karsten Juhl Jørgensen⁴, Gordon Guyatt⁵, Victor M Montori⁶

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¹ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; and The Lisa Schwartz Foundation for Truth in Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire (M.J.).
² Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden, and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden (A.N.).
³ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; The Lisa Schwartz Foundation for Truth in Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University, Robina, Queensland, Australia (L.A.).
⁴ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; The Lisa Schwartz Foundation for Truth in Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire; Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense (CEBMO) and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (K.J.J.).
⁵ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; and Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (G.G.).
⁶ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; and The Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, New York (V.M.M.).

PMID: 39250805
DOI: 10.7326/ANNALS-24-00283

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Guidelines Recommending That Clinicians Advise Patients on Lifestyle Changes: A Popular but Questionable Approach to Improve Public Health

Minna Johansson et al. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Oct.

. 2024 Oct;177(10):1425-1427.

doi: 10.7326/ANNALS-24-00283. Epub 2024 Sep 10.

Authors

Minna Johansson¹, Amanda Niklasson², Loai Albarqouni³, Karsten Juhl Jørgensen⁴, Gordon Guyatt⁵, Victor M Montori⁶

Affiliations

¹ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; and The Lisa Schwartz Foundation for Truth in Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire (M.J.).
² Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden, and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden (A.N.).
³ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; The Lisa Schwartz Foundation for Truth in Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University, Robina, Queensland, Australia (L.A.).
⁴ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; The Lisa Schwartz Foundation for Truth in Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire; Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense (CEBMO) and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (K.J.J.).
⁵ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; and Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (G.G.).
⁶ Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, Uddevalla, Sweden; and The Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, New York (V.M.M.).

PMID: 39250805
DOI: 10.7326/ANNALS-24-00283

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Grant Support: From Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd (FORTE) (Dr. Johansson; grant number 2019-00928), and Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (Dr. Johansson and Dr. Niklasson; grant number 2021-06484). Disclosures: Disclosure forms are available with the article online.

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