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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Obesity Volume 2011, Article ID 686521, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2011/686521 Research Article Canadian Physicians’ Use of Antiobesity Drugs and Their Referral Patterns to Weight Management Programs or Providers: The SOCCER Study R. S. Padwal,1, 2 S. Damjanovic,3 K. M. Schulze,4 R. Z. Lewanczuk,1 D. C. W. Lau,5 and A. M. Sharma1 1 Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2V2 2 Department of Medicine, Walter C. MacKenzie Health Sciences Center (2F1.26), University of Alberta Hospital, 8440-112 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2B7 3 Madella Clinical Research Consulting, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L9C 7W6 4 Population Health Research Institute, McMaster Hamilton, University Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8L 2X2 5 Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 4N1 Correspondence should be addressed to R. S. Padwal, rpadwal@ualberta.ca Received 13 September 2010; Accepted 15 October 2010 Academic Editor: A. Halpern Copyright © 2011 R. S. Padwal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Antiobesity pharmacotherapy and programs/providers that possess weight management expertise are not commonly used by physicians. The underlying reasons for this are not known. We performed a cross-sectional study in 33 Canadian medical practices (36 physicians) examining 1788 overweight/obese adult patients. The frequency of pharmacotherapy use and referral for further diet, exercise, behavioral management and/or bariatric surgery was documented. If drug treatment or referral was not made, reas