A610 Nurse Practitioner led Telephone Intervention to Improve Attrition After Bariatric Surgery

Bariatric surgery remains the most successful modality for sustained weight loss. Attrition rates to follow up visits are reported between 3-63% (Moroshko, Brennan, & O’Brien, 2012). Patient attrition was defined as patients not seen for his/her planned appointment as dictated by established protocol in the Bariatric Surgery program. There is a gap in knowledge regarding how to decrease attrition. The main purpose of this project was to decrease...