Dare County Quality Improvement Project for the Overweight and Obese Adult Patient
Author
King, Carol Ann
Graduate Nursing Science
Abstract
Obesity is a serious disease that has tripled in prevalence since the 1980s, it affects all Americans either directly or indirectly, and attributes to several serious comorbidities and premature death. While guidelines do currently exist, provider weight management counseling is inconsistent and far from ideal. After educating the staff in a primary care setting on the importance of identifying patients with BMIs > 25 and providing those identified with weight management counseling, the staff showed a sitewide improvement in the identification of abnormal BMIs with a 37% increase in the use of corresponding overweight and obesity diagnosis codes, an 8% increase in patient weight management counseling, and an 88% increase in the use of weight management counseling billing codes.
Date
2019-04-15
Citation:
APA:
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(April 2019).
Dare County Quality Improvement Project for the Overweight and Obese Adult Patient
(DNP Scholarly Project, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7143.)
MLA:
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Dare County Quality Improvement Project for the Overweight and Obese Adult Patient.
DNP Scholarly Project. East Carolina University,
April 2019. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7143.
September 21, 2023.
Chicago:
,
“Dare County Quality Improvement Project for the Overweight and Obese Adult Patient”
(DNP Scholarly Project., East Carolina University,
April 2019).
AMA:
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Dare County Quality Improvement Project for the Overweight and Obese Adult Patient
[DNP Scholarly Project]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
April 2019.
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