… The high prevalence of obesity in our nation requires that primary care practitioners play a
… treatments, should improve primary care physicians' ability to help their overweight patients. …

… Herein, we discuss the approaches that primary care … review obesity from the perspective
of primary care providers, examining common physical and physiologic implications of obesity …

… obese patients' perceptions of primary care to directly compare with this study but there is
some other evidence of general dissatisfaction with services from this group of patients.12 , 18 …

… used to describe the visits of obese patients with their primary care providers. It has been …
the influence of patient obesity on what takes place during initial primary care visits, while …

… and obese individuals in one primary care setting. It is hypothesized that overweight and
obese individuals are over-represented in primary care. It is further hypothesized that obesity is …

… and management of overweight and obese patients. Causes of obesity in the United States
are complex and multifactorial. Increasing evidence suggests that obesity is not a simple …

… Be Fit, Be Well was a 2-arm, 24-month patient-randomized effectiveness trial conducted
among 365 obese adult primary care patients with hypertension, as described previously. …

… Patients and providers disagreed about whether or not weight issues were … of primary care
encounters in this study. Physicians may be able to improve care for their obese patients by …

… when conducted outside of primary care or in real practice … of care delivery? In the current
study, we evaluated the implementation of care management in a nonresearch primary care …

… or be less likely to have referrals documented, so this effect is unlikely to bias our findings
about comparative screening rates of obese and non-obese patients. Finally, our study did not …