Health-Care Administrator Perspectives on Prevention Guidelines and Healthy Lifestyle Counseling in a Primary Care Setting in New York State.
Julie A SorensenHelene JohanssonLars JerdénJames DaltonHenna SheikhPaul JenkinsJohn MayLars WeinehallPublished in: Health services research and managerial epidemiology (2019)
Our research indicates that administrators and administrative structures face barriers to supporting prevention activities such as guideline implementation and healthy lifestyle counseling in primary care settings. They also identified several solutions for addressing existing primary prevention barriers, such as relying on nurses to provide healthy lifestyle support to patients. This article provides an important assessment of institutional readiness to support primary prevention efforts.
Keyphrases
- primary care
- healthcare
- metabolic syndrome
- cardiovascular disease
- weight loss
- physical activity
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- general practice
- quality improvement
- smoking cessation
- mental health
- type diabetes
- clinical practice
- social media
- patient reported outcomes
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv infected
- health information
- patient reported