Measuring What Matters: Beyond Quality Performance Measures in Caring for Adults with Obesity.

ABSTRACT: Obesity is a chronic disease that poses serious health and societal burdens. Although guidelines exist for obesity management in primary care, evaluating the success of obesity treatment programs is hampered by lack of established, robust quality measures. This study aimed to develop, and test for feasibility, measures for operational tracking, quality performance, and patient-centered care in the context of a national collaborative to develop a model for obesity management in the US primary care setting. The authors developed and evaluated 7 measures used to track the care of patients with overweight or obesity (n = 226,727 at baseline) receiving care within 10 health care organizations (HCOs). Measure categories included: (1) operational tracking (obesity/overweight prevalence and preval

SUBMITTER: Ciemins E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8403197 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature