ArticleObesity surgery2018
General Practitioners and Bariatric Surgery in France: Are They Ready to Face the Challenge?
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- Nutritional Deficiencies Following Bariatric Surgery: A Rapid Systematic Review of Case Reports of Vitamin and Micronutrient Deficiencies Presenting More Than Two Years Post-Surgery.Clinical obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Providers' Knowledge and Perceptions of Bariatric Surgery: a Systematic Review.Obesity surgery · 2023Pooled it
- Factors influencing primary care provider referral for bariatric surgery: Systematic review.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2022Pooled it
- Evaluation of a Bariatric Monitoring Pass for Primary Care Physicians.Obesity facts · 2022Trial
- The Overweight and Obesity Landscape in France: Data from the French Cohort of the Multi-country IMPACT-O Study.Advances in therapy · 2026Article
- Making do in the absence of specialist support: Exploring healthcare professionals' views, experiences and behaviours around long-term post-bariatric surgery follow-up care in the United Kingdom.Clinical obesity · 2025Article
- Qualitative study on postbariatric surgery follow-up in France: a new patient-physician relationship.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Current Knowledge and Perceptions of Bariatric Surgery among Diabetologists and Internists in Poland.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- General Practitioner's Knowledge about Bariatric Surgery Is Associated with Referral Practice to Bariatric Surgery Centers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Post-bariatric surgery nutritional follow-up in primary care: a population-based cohort study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021Article
- General practitioners' approaches to prostate-specific antigen testing in the north-east of the Netherlands.BMC family practice · 2020Article
- [The German snowball effect : An increasing aftercare problem in bariatric treatment].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2019Article
- Early detection of prostate cancer using prostate-specific antigen testing: an empirical evaluation among general practitioners and urologists.Cancer management and research · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeThe epidemic of obesity has determined an important rise in popularity for bariatric surgery (BS) in France. The role of general practitioners (GPs) in the decision-making process of candidates to BS as well as in their life-long follow-up after surgery is therefore destined to grow up. The aim of this survey was to provide a picture of the actual knowledge of GPs about BS.
methodsThe link to an e-questionnaire composed of 20 multiple choice questions was sent to all the 101 Departmental Councils of the French Medical Board, accompanied by a letter explaining the objectives of the study. Councils were asked to distribute the e-questionnaire to GPs in their department.
resultsA total of 2224 GPs were solicited by e-mail in six departments and 288 surveys were completed, representing a 12.9% response rate. A proportion as high as 97.2% of GPs reported taking care of at least one patient operated on for BS and 88.5% declared having referred at least one patient for BS. Nevertheless, a considerable proportion of GPs declared not to have sufficient knowledge to manage BS patients. Moreover, 86.1% wished to receive more education and 83.7% declared to be available for participating in follow-up.
conclusionAcademic institutions, scientific societies, and all physicians involved in obesity care should actively participate in the correction of the educational gap of GPs in order to obtain an effective help in the complex challenge of facing the obesity epidemic.
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