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Evaluating The Feasibility And Efficacy Of A Brief Motivational Interviewing Nutrition Intervention For Women With Type 2 Diabetes In Primary Care, Charlotte M. Adams
Evaluating The Feasibility And Efficacy Of A Brief Motivational Interviewing Nutrition Intervention For Women With Type 2 Diabetes In Primary Care, Charlotte M. Adams
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Background: The American Diabetes Association recommends lifestyle modification to prevent and treat diabetes in their 2021 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes. Evidence suggests that motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective intervention that clinicians can use to facilitate behavior change in patients with type two diabetes.
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to evaluate a brief motivational interviewing intervention that could be delivered by a PCP to provide individualized nutrition counseling for adult women with type two diabetes in a primary care clinic in Lexington, KY. This study was a continuation of a previous quality improvement project at this …
Evaluating Providers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, And Intentions Toward Utilizing First Post-Discharge Visit Checklist In Primary Care To Reduce Readmissions In Heart Failure Patients, Binu Bashyal
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Background and Significance: Heart failure (HF) affects approximately 6.2 million adults in the United States and 40 million people globally. HF is one of the leading causes of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations in adults. Twenty percent of patients admitted for HF are readmitted within thirty days, and up to fifty percent are readmitted by six months. A First Post-Discharge Visit checklist could help mitigate the problem of readmission.
Purpose: The purpose of this DNP project was to evaluate primary care providers’ knowledge, attitudes, and intentions towards utilizing the First Post-Discharge Visit checklist to reduce hospital readmissions among …