Table 1.
Study Characteristics
| Study author (year) | Data collection dates | Design | Data type | Setting | Population | Female (%) | Non-white (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afonso35 (2010) | Feb 2007-April 2008 | Observational, cross-sectional | Descriptive and inferential | Outpatient and inpatient | Patients: 77 severely obese patients seen by internal medicine residents as inpatients or outpatients at the Cleveland Clinic Florida for medical problems not related to bariatric surgery | 53 | 51 |
| Arterburn28 (2013) | Not reported | Observational, cross-sectional | Inferential | Integrated health care System | Patients: 295 severely obese participants who were members of Group Health (Washington) who met NIH criteria for bariatric surgery but had not been referred to the Bariatric Surgery Program at Group Health | 68 | 22 |
| Ferrante29 (2009) | March-May 2008 | Observational, cross-sectional | Inferential | Outpatient | Providers: 255 family physicians in New Jersey (members of the NJ Family Medicine Research network and randomly selected family physicians from a Blue Cross Blue Shield provider directory | 41 | 20 |
| Khawali31 (2014) | Jan 2006-Feb 2007 | Observational, cross-sectional | Inferential | Outpatient | Patients: 65 Patients with a BMI >=40 who were registered on the waiting list for bariatric surgery at the Obesity and Bariatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic of the Federal University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) | 62 | Not reported |
| Lynch36 (2007) | Not reported | Observational focus groups | Descriptive | Community | Patients: 41 African-American females with a BMI >30 living in the greater Pittsburgh area; recruited in collaboration with the Black Women and Health Outreach for Longer Life and Empowerment group | 100 | 100 |
| Pitzul32 (2014) | Aug 2009-Feb 2011 | Observational, cross-sectional | Descriptive | Outpatient | Patients: 1,237 patients referred to the Toronto Western Hospital Bariatric Program | 71 | Not reported |
| Sarwer34 (2013) | Not reported | Observational, cross-sectional | Inferential | Integrated health care system | Patients: 130 patients with type 2 diabetes and a BMI of 30-40, ages 18-65, identified from the Pennsylvania Integrated Clinical and Administrative Research Database | 53 | 54 |
| Sivagnanam33 (2008) | Mar 2006-Nov 2007 | Observational, cross-sectional | Descriptive | Outpatient | Patients: 55 patients referred to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (UK) for bariatric surgery | 76 | Not Reported |
| Wee30 (2014) | Not reported | Observational, cross-sectional | Inferential | Two academic medical centers | Patients: 337 patients, ages 18-65, with a BMI>35 who were seen at one of four primary care practices in Greater-Boston | 69 | 65 |