Documentation of Obesity By Felix Lee
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Facts -African Americans (47.8%, 20.2%) -Hispanics (42.5%, 22.4%) -Whites (32.6%, 14.1%) -Asians (10.8%, 8.6%) -Adults (34.9%) -Children (17%)
Scientific Question -Question: Do physicians document obesity? If they do, do they provide any care? -Goal: Determine the effect of the template used by physicians to document obesity. To determine whether proper intervention was provided.
Hypothesis The amount of documented obesities will be 20% higher than non-documented obesities.
Methods -Given a list of patients -Plugged MRN into Powerchart -Extract data -used STATA and Excel to analyze the data
Results -210 patients reviewed -197 were obese or overweight -Age range 2-10
Conclusions -The template made no difference, only about 50/50 chance. -Trainees were more likely to document obesity (59%) compared to (38%) -African Americans are more suspectiable to being overweight/obese -Nutritonal Counseling is most common
Acknowledgements -Dr. Joel Hirschhorn -Dr. Thaker -Project Success -CHB
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