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Abstract

Hospitalised patients with extreme obesity have poorer healthcare outcomes compared to normal weight patients. How hospital services are coordinated and delivered to meet the care needs of patients with extreme obesity is not well understood. The aim of the proposed evidence gap map (EGM) is to identify and assess the available evidence on healthcare interventions to improve healthcare outcomes for hospitalised patients with extreme obesity. This research will use standardised evidence gap map methods to undertake a five-stage process to develop an intervention–outcome framework; identify the current evidence; critically appraise the quality of the evidence, extract, code, and summarise the data in relation to the EGM objectives; and create a visualisation map to present findings. This EGM will provide a means of determining the nature and quality of health service initiatives available, identify the components of the services delivered and the outcome measures used for evaluation, and will identify areas where there is a lack of research that validates the funding of new research studies.

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Title
Healthcare Service Interventions to Improve the Healthcare Outcomes of Hospitalised Patients with Extreme Obesity: Protocol for an Evidence and Gap Map
Author
Hales, Caz 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Chrystall, Rebecca 1 ; Haase, Anne M 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jeffreys, Mona 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 School of Nursing Midwifery and Health Practice, Faculty of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6021, New Zealand; [email protected] 
 School of Health, Faculty of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6041, New Zealand; [email protected] 
 Health Service Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6011, New Zealand; [email protected] 
First page
48
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
24099279
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2679796821
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.