Integrating "Exercise Is Medicine" into primary care workflow: a study protocol.

ABSTRACT: As a major contributor to the burden of most chronic diseases, insufficient physical activity (PA) creates a significant financial burden on the health care system. Numerous interventions effectively increase PA, but few are integrated into primary care clinic workflows. Exercise Is Medicine (EIM) is a global health initiative committed to the belief that PA is integral to the prevention and treatment of diseases and should be routinely assessed as a vital sign and treated in the health care setting. This paper describes an in-progress embedded quality improvement (QI) project that integrates EIM into routine clinical practice. A combination of implementation science (IS) and QI models are used to adapt, implement, and evaluate the integration of EIM into six primary care clinics. The Prac

SUBMITTER: Linke SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8599878 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature