“Is it time to throw out the weighing scales?” Implicit weight bias among healthcare professionals
working in bariatric surgery services and their attitude towards non-weight focused …

… the quality of healthcare delivery is uniform for patients of varying sizes. Preliminary evidence
collected more than 10 y ago suggests that health professionals hold negative attitudes …

… All clinics had weighing scales with annual … weighed patients during the data collection
period. Patients attending these ten clinics had an 11.8% to 88.9% chance of being weighed (…

… built-in scales or floor scales that can weigh the patient and the stretcher, chair scales, and
portable standing scales. … The content on this site is intended for healthcare professionals. …

… personal and professional experiences with obesity. Results: Health professionals exhibited
… , having a positive emotional outlook on life, weighing more, having friends who are obese, …

… Intended for healthcare professionals … in the purchasing of additional scales for the surgical
admissions unit. It … scales 15 and requests for supine weighing scales have been submitted. …

… Patients were weighed with one smart scale immediately after DEXA. Three … using smart
scales at home with automated data treatment could help health care professionals and patients …

… of weighing to pregnant women and health professionals, and thus the transcripts were
scrutinised for instances relating to their experience of the study and their opinions on weighing …

… consequence of inaccuracies when any health professionals estimate weight (Partridge et …
weight such as inbuilt floor scales for trolleys and beds with inbuilt weigh scales in Emergency …

… , disrespectful treatment, embarrassment being weighed, unsolicited advice to … health
profession students at a mountain west university. The mean total score on the Fat Phobia Scale …