Five Recent Expert Recommendations on the Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity: Toward an Emerging Consensus—A Stepped Care Approach
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Various organizations published five sets of expert recommendations recently: 2007 Healthcare Organizations' Four Stage Model; 2006 Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines; 2008 The Endocrine Society Recommendations; 2009 Seven Step Model; and 2010 US Preventive Task Force Recommendations. METHODS: We compared the recommendations' approaches and conclusions pertaining to four treatments (self-help groups, outpatient cognitive-behavior therapy [CBT], immersion CBT, and surgery). RESULTS: All of the expert committees supported using intensive dietary, physical activity, and cognitive-behavioral counseling; two of the five groups discouraged reliance on educational interventions alone, and two of the groups explicitly promoted a stepped-care approach. CONCLUSIONS: Greatest benefits may accrue by encouraging healthcare providers and parents to view medical management and education as foundations to change, but to pursue increasingly intensive viable options until overweight and obese children make clinically significant progress toward improved health and happiness.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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