Enhancing and Evaluating a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Southwest Virginia
Grantee: Carilion Medical Center
Year Funded: 2023
Amount: $97,600.00
Report Status: Report not posted
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Project Summary:
The goals of this project are to:
- enhance the quality of care provided in a Lifestyle Medicine (LM) clinic serving a medically underserved patient population in southwest Virginia (SWVA) through multi-level evaluation
- advance knowledge of factors associated with successful LM program implementation
- advance the field of LM through experiential learning for residents, dissemination of scholarly work, and sharing of resources.
We will automate the maintenance of a LM patient registry. This effort will improve data quality and reduce the burden of registry maintenance, enhancing the registry’s utility for evaluating outcomes. Registry data from the clinic’s first year and additional patient survey and care team interviews will be used to evaluate clinical outcomes and factors associated with successful LM program implementation. Finally, we will refine and pilot test resources for conducting LM group educational visits in medically underserved populations in SWVA.
Outcomes include:
- Automated data extraction and upload process for the LM registry.
- Impact of LM clinic participation on clinical outcomes.
- Factors associated with LM program retention, treatment success, and program satisfaction.
- Implementation of LM group education visits tailored to patients in SWVA in a Family Medicine Residency program and a local federally qualified health center.
- Scholarly presentations and publications at LM and research conferences.
