Tools & Best Practices

Why reinvent the wheel? 
Download these tools that will help you assess and counsel patients and learn the latest trends in obesity prevention and treatment.

Treatment Tools

• Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity: Treatment Options Guide
  This guide from the American Medical Association offers treatment options based on BMI.  

• Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity: Assessment of Patient Readiness
  This assessment from the American Medical Association helps physicians determine patients' readiness to lose weight.  

• Counseling Overweight and Obese Patients
  This DVD demonstrates options for counseling patients, with sample interviews from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.  

• MedScape Weight Management Resource Center
  MedScape is a collection of the latest news, information and counseling strategies related to obesity and weight management (free registration required).  

• Roadmaps for Clinical Practice Series: Assessment and Management of Adult Obesity
  These ten downloadable booklets from the American Medical Association address adult obesity in primary care settings.

Physician Toolkits

• California Medicine Foundation Association
  These sample toolkits allow users to measure change in patients.

Best Practices

• The Center for Health Transformation’s Best Practice Compendium
  The success stories described in this document serve as a small sample of what is happening in communities across the country where transformational leaders are creating programs and processes that save lives and save money. These best practices 1) Improve individual health and wellness through prevention and personal responsibility; 2) Improve the quality, administration and delivery of care; 3) Lower costs; and/or 4) Expand access to care.

• Farm to Hospital: Supporting Local Agriculture and Improving Health Care
  Look here for case studies of hospitals who have successfully implemented Farm to Hospital programming.