Primary care clinicians' perspectives on clinical decision support to enhance outcomes of online obesity treatment in primary care: A qualitative formative evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Online behavioral treatment for obesity produces clinically-meaningful weight losses among many primary care patients. However, some patients experience poor outcomes (i.e., failure to enroll post-referral, poor weight loss, or premature disengagement). This study sought to understand primary care clinicians' perceived utility of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) that would alert clinicians to patients' risk for poor outcome and guide clinician-delivered rescue interventions to reduce risk.

Methods

Qualitative formative evaluation was conducted in the context of an ongoing pragmatic clinical trial implementing online obesity treatment in primary care. Interviews were conducted with 14 nurse care managers (NCMs) overseeing patients' online obesity treatment.

SUBMITTER: Espel-Huynh HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8555757 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature