Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Clinical Practice Intervention in Increasing Obesity Data Recording at a Western Australian Country Health Service Hospital: A Quasi-Experimental Controlled Trial.

The obesity recording intervention was successful; however, as hospitals increasingly use electronic health records, improvement opportunities should be considered such as compulsory recording of patient weight and height, embedded BMI calculators and "check boxes" for recording impacts of obesity conditions on treatment. Immediate improvement of obesity recording in manual patient files can be achieved in the meantime by implementing targets of 100% weight, height and BMI recording, introducing education programs and auditing compliance.