MEETINGS

To standardize Quality of Life measures, we believe it is essential to reach a consensus among all stakeholders. To achieve this, we organize consensus meetings that bring together both people living with obesity and healthcare providers.

S.Q.O.T. IV Meeting

The S.Q.O.T. IV meeting will be held online on Monday 20 April 2026.

Amsterdam (NL) - 13:00-16:30 (CEST, UTC+2)
New York (USA) - 07:00-10:30 (EDT, UTC-4)
London (UK) - 12:00-15:30 (BST, UTC+1)
Dubai (UAE) - 15:00-18:30 (Gulf Standard Time, UTC+4)
Sydney (Australia) - 21:00-00:30 (AEST, UTC+10)

This meeting will focus on the role and purpose of PROMs in clinical registries.

The outcomes of this meeting will provide an important foundation for future development of a core set for clinical registries.

Program

We will begin with a brief reflection on the previous S.Q.O.T. meetings and outline the objectives of this session.

We are then pleased to welcome two speakers who will introduce complementary perspectives:

Associate Professor Rasa Ruseckaite (Monash University) will discuss recommendations for incorporating PROMs into clinical registries.

Jitske Tiemensma (Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing – DICA) will share practical insights from integrating PROMs into quality registries.

In addition, the results of the preparatory survey will be presented and used to highlight areas of agreement and divergence among participants.

These contributions will form the basis of an interactive, moderated consensus discussion led by Dr. Christopher Millward, aimed at defining the primary purpose of PROMs in obesity treatment registries.

We warmly invite people living with obesity as well as international healthcare providers in the field of obesity treatment to join the discussion and contribute their insights.

Register for the meeting: https://forms.wix.com/f/7367124878215872738

S.Q.O.T. symposium ECO 2023

On the 17th of May 2023 S.Q.O.T. presented a symposium at the ECO conference in Dublin:

Integrating the patients’ perspective in obesity care: using patient-reported outcome measures in clinical practices, research and registries.

S.Q.O.T. III Meeting

The S.Q.O.T. III meeting was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on the 2nd and 3rd of May 2022. A standard set of PROMs to measure quality of life in obesity treatment was defined (for research and clinical practice).

The results of this meeting were published in Obesity Reviews and Obesity Surgery.

S.Q.O.T. II Meeting

The S.Q.O.T. II meeting was held online. The objective of this meeting was to decide on the final selection of PROMs to measure quality of life in research for treatment of obesity.

The results of this meeting were published in Obesity Reviews.

S.Q.O.T. I Meeting

The S.Q.O.T. I meeting was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the 1st and 2nd of September 2019 and focussed on moving towards consensus on the preferred patient-reported outcome measure to assess quality of life in people living with obesity.

The meeting was attended by 35 individuals from different countries around the world and represents a wide range of sectors including people living with obesity and healthcare providers.

In this first meeting:

- We discussed and selected the key domains for quality of life

- We selected PROMs for these key domains

The results of this meeting were published in Obesity Reviews.