ArticleThe Australian journal of rural health2016
Depressed, anxious and breathless missing out: Weight screening in general practice in a regional catchment of New South Wales.
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- Enablers and barriers to implementing obesity assessments in clinical practice: a rapid mixed-methods systematic review.BMJ open · 2022Pooled it
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- Sentinel Networks for the Surveillance of Overweight and Obesity: A Scoping Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Article
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- Perceptions of primary care staff on a regional data quality intervention in Australian general practice: a qualitative study.BMC family practice · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the recording status of weight management measures among adults presenting to general practices within regional catchments.
designCross-sectional; secondary data analysis.
settingPrimary health care - 17 general practices located in the Illawarra Shoalhaven region of regional New South Wales.
participantsA subset of the Sentinel Practices Data Sourcing project database (n = 118 709 adults) that included information on demographic indicators, chronic disease status, and obesity and overweight-specific measurement indicators recorded from September 2011 to September 2013.
main outcome measuresProportions of coded recording of quantitative measures of overweight and obesity - body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference, and likelihood of BMI recording (odds ratios (ORs)) by various clinical diagnosis and counts of recorded conditions.
resultsOf the patients, 30.9% had a BMI recorded and only 8.0% had a waist circumference recorded in their electronic medical records. There were variations in BMI recording across age with those aged 45-64 years more likely (aOR = 1.25; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.21-1.29; P-value < 0.001) to have a recorded BMI. Patients with mental health conditions (a OR = 0.80; 95% CI, 0.76-0.84; P-value < 0.001) and patients with respiratory conditions (aOR = 0.91; 95% CI, 0.86-0.96; P-value = 0.001) were significantly less likely to have a BMI recorded.
conclusionsRecording of measures of obesity and overweight in general practices within regional settings is much lower than optimal. More support and advocacy around weighing patients at all interactions is required for regional general practitioners to increase the weight screening in primary care. These findings have policy-relevant implications for weight management in regional Australia.
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