Characterizing Obesity in a Large Health Care Delivery System

The goal of this descriptive study was to better understand the prevalence of obesity within a racially diverse integrated health care delivery system, with a primary aim to quantify the prevalence of obesity and its variation across the system. Study Population The study population included all pat...

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Published in:The American journal of managed care 2023-11, Vol.29 (11), p.558-564
Main Author: Pressman, Alice
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Body mass index
Chronic illnesses
Comorbidity
Cross-sectional studies
Electronic health records
Electronic records
Emergency medical care
Ethnicity
Evidence-based medicine
Health care delivery
Health care policy
Health insurance
Health services utilization
Hispanic people
Hospitalization
Integrated delivery systems
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Mortality
Obesity
Patients
Primary care
Race
Regression analysis
Type 2 diabetes
Weight control
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Summary:The goal of this descriptive study was to better understand the prevalence of obesity within a racially diverse integrated health care delivery system, with a primary aim to quantify the prevalence of obesity and its variation across the system. Study Population The study population included all patients 18 years and older receiving care in the Sutter Health system who had at least 1 primary care visit between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2019, and at least 12 to 24 months of activity prior to the patient's first in-person encounter (index date) during the study period. Baseline demographic characteristics (eg, age, sex, health insurance, and self-identified race and ethnicity) and clinical characteristics (eg, body mass index [BMI], comorbidities, Charlson Comorbidity Index [CCI] score,31 and smoking status) were extracted from the EHR. [...]we used outpatient encounters as our basis for modelling utilization.
ISSN:1088-0224
1936-2692
DOI:10.37765/ajmc.2023.89451