Guidelines To Prevent Chronic Illness

Describe your topic.: For evidence-based guidelines that currently leverage higher-quality of care within the healthcare system, what evidence-based guidelines involving daily exercise, healthy diet, and sleep exist for decreasing the development of chronic illnesses within the United States?

Describe why this topic is important.: This topic is important because of the evidence found making quality in sleep, diet, and exercise important in preventing the chronic illnesses that currently drive a lot of federal and state dollars within the healthcare system. There is alot of time and money spent on providing preventative screenings and changes in technology but not promoting changes in daily lifestyles that allow quality in sleep, diet, and exercise. The numbers for obesity and many other severe illnesses are on the rise without respect to age or gender. This may be caused by the increase in synthetic developments within all areas of society. Just a thought

Tell us why you are suggesting this topic.: The goal for many if not all funding and campaign initiatives within the U.S. are around decreasing the rising costs of healthcare while promoting health and preventative screenings. The underlying causes to the chronic illnesses and healthcare costs require intentional changes within the push to shove, fast, economical, rapid-evolving lifestyle promoted throughout all social systems. Changes to accessible healthy foods (growing natural foods and animals), quality of sleep (changes in hours of businesses or events), and exercises (accessibility for all communities) would have to take place. The changes needing to take place seem without doing the math or research to be cheaper than current efforts made in decreasing healthcare costs and improving health of many.

Describe what you are doing currently and what you are hoping will change because of a new evidence report.: I am currently a DON/QIQA coordinator at a FQHC (federally qualified healthcare clinic) in <redacted>, Louisiana. This new role followed my MSN degree, in which I achieved after fulfilling a leadership role over a 26-bed mixed ICU/CCU unit in a non-profit organization. The time in the critical care area increased my awareness to research and inquisitive nature within. The leadership role enhanced my awareness to the potential of making changes from another perspective, in which I then sought my MSN degree. Upon completing my MSN, I received an offer for the current positions I hold at the Outpatient Medical Center. The QIQA coordinator position keeps me researching on ways to improve healthcare within the outpatient setting. This is a huge challenge in which I do enjoy. My inquiry on information to fulfill on a potential IQIQA grant led me to this research proposal.

How will you or your group use the information from a new evidence report?: The information found in the report will help in promoting a change to the care provided by providing basic lifestyle education for all ages to promote, prevent, and encourage the surrounding communities to support the initiative to drive healthier lifestyles within Louisiana. The PCMH model would shift to meeting true holistic patient needs by different types of resources, goals, and outcomes.

How would you or your group plan to disseminate information from the report? Who would you plan to disseminate it to?: The information within the report would be reviewed, discussed, and disseminated by the QIQA committee in which drives all quality initiatives within the OMC system. The QIQA committee reports quality initiatives to the leadership team and then further to the QIQA subcommittees. Every OMC staff member is required to participate on a committee, in which would allow dissemination of the reports easy.

Do you know of organizations that could use an evidence report to change clinical practice? Are you a part of, or have you been in contact with, any organizations that might implement the research findings of an evidence report?: All healthcare organizations can use evidence based reports to change clinical practices. All state healthcare commissions and boards can integrate the evidence based clinical reports into their affiliated services provided within all healthcare organizations. This further would integrate into insurance plans that currently contract with providers, ACO's, and MCO's. This evidence based report can make changes to healthcare clinical systems as well as quality metrics within insurance plans. This integrates the evidence based report into the healthcare system.

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