Criteria for EASO-Collaborating Centres for Obesity Management
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2011Author
ROMAN, Gabriela
MAISLOS, Maximo
TSIGOS, Constantine
HAINER, Vojtech
BASDEVANT, Arnaud
Yumuk, Volkan Demirhan
FINER, Nick
MATHUS-VLIEGEN, Elisabeth
MICIC, Dragan
ZAHORSKA-MARKIEWICZ, Barbara
TOPLAK, Hermann
Schutz, Yves
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Obesity is recognised as a global epidemic and the most prevalent metabolic disease world-wide. Specialised obesity services, however, are not widely available in Europe, and obesity care can vary enormously across European regions. The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO, www.easo.org) has developed these criteria to form a pan-European network of accredited EASO-Collaborating Centres for Obesity Management (EASO-COMs) in accordance with accepted European and academic guidelines. This network will include university, public and private clinics and will ensure that the obese and overweight patient is managed by a holistic team of specialists and receives comprehensive state-of-the-art clinical care. Furthermore, the participating centres, under the umbrella of EASO, will work closely for quality control, data collection, and analysis as well as for education and research for the advancement of obesity care and obesity science.
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