Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: year period.While accounting for surgical BMI and age, quantile regression was used to create expected WL curves (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th %tile) for the 36 month post-operative period.Results: A mobile application (Get-2-Goal) was designed to provide a simple, personalized interface that allows patients to track their WL and compare their WL results to their expected WL curves.Get-2-Goal was made publicly available at no cost on a popular Apps store and is compatible with current smartphone and tablet technology (>1000 downloads to date).Get-2-Goal allows patients to input their personal profile (e.g.age, BMI), review their expected WL, and track their WL post-operatively.Patients have the option of saving a graphic containing their personalized WL curves and e-mailing a tabular form of their WL results to family, friends, and/or care providers.Conclusions: Get-2-Goal is a simple tool that may be used by Bariatric Surgery Programs to facilitate electronic patient education.This tool may assist patients in deciding to proceed to WL surgery, and will facilitate early identification of patients who are struggling with WL or weight maintenance.Future modifications of this methodology can be used to personalize other comorbidity outcomes such as diabetes resolution.
Source: Clinical Medicine & Research
Institution: Kaiser Permanente
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2042155606