From the clinic to the community: Can health system data accurately estimate population obesity prevalence?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Health system data were assessed for how well they can estimate obesity prevalence in census tracts.

Methods

Clinical visit data were available from two large health systems (Kaiser Permanente Washington and University of Washington Medicine) in King County, Washington, as were census tract-level obesity prevalence estimates from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The health system data were geocoded to identify each patient's tract of residence, and the cross-sectional concordance between census tract-level obesity prevalence estimates computed from the two health systems in 2005 to 2006 and the concordance between University of Washington Medicine and BRFSS from 2012 to 2016 were assessed.

Results

The spatial distribution of obesity wa

SUBMITTER: Mooney SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8571026 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature