Bariatric Surgery
Executive Summary

Throughout our search strategy for bariatric surgery, 709 citations in total were retrieved from PubMed and EMBASE in January 2022.

After initial screening, there were 244 publications found to be relevant for Bariatric Surgery Update criteria. The number of publications per specific research question is provided in the table below.

Among the relevant publications, there were 112 found to be especially important or novel – they either studied new research questions, employed good methodology, or had a large sample size.

Research Question Relevant
Articles		 Important
Articles
Clinical effectiveness of bariatric surgery 60 16
Clinical effectiveness of bariatric surgeryTechnical and organizational characteristics - -
Health problems of bariatric surgery - -
Others - -
Technical aspects of bariatric surgery - -
Safety of bariatric surgery 58 21
Health problems and current use of bariatric surgery - -
Costs and economic evaluation 2 2
Technical and organizational characteristics 33 16
Patient and social aspects 18 4
Legal and ethical aspects - -
Other papers - -