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| Title |
Bariatric surgery for obese children and adolescents: a review of the moral challenges
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, April 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-14-18 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bjørn Hofmann |
| Abstract |
Bariatric surgery for children and adolescents is becoming widespread. However, the evidence is still scarce and of poor quality, and many of the patients are too young to consent. This poses a series of moral challenges, which have to be addressed both when considering bariatric surgery introduced as a health care service and when deciding for treatment for young individuals. A question based (Socratic) approach is applied to reveal underlying moral issues that can be relevant to an open and transparent decision making process. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | 14% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 71% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 86% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 210 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 206 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 37 | 18% |
| Researcher | 33 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 24 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 8% |
| Other | 35 | 17% |
| Unknown | 48 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 69 | 33% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 10% |
| Psychology | 19 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 25 | 12% |
| Unknown | 52 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 January 2015.
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#1,701,819
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Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#145
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#13,733
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#3
of 8 outputs
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