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The equity impact of brief opportunistic interventions to promote weight loss in primary care: secondary analysis of the BWeL randomised trial

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BACKGROUND:Guidelines recommend that clinicians should make brief opportunistic behavioural interventions to patients who are obese to increase the uptake of effective weight loss programmes. The objective was to assess the effect of this policy on socioeconomic equity. METHODS:One thousand eight hundred eighty-two consecutively attending patients with obesity and who were not seeking support for weight loss from their GP were enrolled in a trial. Towards the end of each consultation, GPs ran...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1186/s12916-019-1284-y

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-8244-9650
Publisher:
BioMed Central Publisher's website
Journal:
BMC Medicine Journal website
Volume:
17
Issue:
1
Article number:
51
Publication date:
2019-03-01
Acceptance date:
2019-02-08
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EISSN:
1741-7015
Pmid:
30819170
Language:
English
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pubs:979129
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uuid:c46f4922-d5ce-49c2-aa1f-a3523056f92d
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pubs:979129
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979129
Deposit date:
2019-03-04

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