TY - JOUR
T1 - Applying the time needed to treat to NICE guidelines on lifestyle interventions
AU - Albarqouni, Loai
AU - Montori, Victor
AU - Jørgensen, Karsten Juhl
AU - Ringsten, Martin
AU - Bulbeck, Helen
AU - Johannson, Minna
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was partly funded by Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (project number 2019-00928). The funders had no role in considering the study design or in the collection, analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the report or decision to submit the article for publication.
PY - 2023/5/24
Y1 - 2023/5/24
N2 - There is a growing emphasis on interventions where clinicians identify and aim to change unhealthy habits in individuals, such as dietary advice for people with obesity.1 2 Although such individually oriented lifestyle interventions (IOLIs) might be effective, it may not be feasible to implement all recommended IOLIs in the care of many eligible individuals, given the finite resources within health systems.3 Time needed to treat (TNT) has been proposed as a measure of guideline feasibility in practice.4 TNT estimates the fraction of the available time that clinicians would need to implement the recommendation. We aimed to estimate the TNT to provide all IOLIs recommended in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines to the eligible adult population in the UK.
AB - There is a growing emphasis on interventions where clinicians identify and aim to change unhealthy habits in individuals, such as dietary advice for people with obesity.1 2 Although such individually oriented lifestyle interventions (IOLIs) might be effective, it may not be feasible to implement all recommended IOLIs in the care of many eligible individuals, given the finite resources within health systems.3 Time needed to treat (TNT) has been proposed as a measure of guideline feasibility in practice.4 TNT estimates the fraction of the available time that clinicians would need to implement the recommendation. We aimed to estimate the TNT to provide all IOLIs recommended in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines to the eligible adult population in the UK.
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U2 - 10.1136/bmjebm-2022-112225
DO - 10.1136/bmjebm-2022-112225
M3 - Letter
C2 - 37225391
SN - 1356-5524
SP - 1
EP - 2
JO - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
JF - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
M1 - bmjebm-2022-112225
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