Implementation of the Inter-facility Protocol Including a Company, a Health Insurance Organization, and a Health Check-up Facility Could Improve a Completion Rate of Specific Health Guidance, the Dietary and Exercise Educational Program Provided under the Workplace Annual Health Check-up for a High-risk Group of Metabolic Syndrome, to Nearly One Hundred Percent in a Large-scale Group Organization

Abstract

Objective: We investigated the effectiveness of implementation of an inter-facility protocol including a company, a health insurance organization, and a health check-up facility for improving the completion rate of Specific Health Guidance, the dietary and exercise educational program provided under the workplace annual health check-up for a high-risk group of metabolic syndrome, in a large-scale group organization.

Methods: We summarized the steps and activities taken by the project for improving the completion rate of Specific Health Guidance from 2017 to 2020, for developing the protocol. Our protocol includes three main steps: 1) an inter-facility team development and project planning, 2) consensus building among stakeholders and a leader, 3) inter-facility cooperation by divisions of a company, a health insurance organization, and a health check-up facility. The outcomes were defined as annual completion rates of selected participants and were compared with those of 2017.

Results: The completion rates of Specific Health Guidance were increased from 6.4% to 93.6% in three years.

Conclusions: The inter-facility protocol including a company, a health insurance organization, and a health check-up facility could improve the completion rate of Specific Health Guidance to nearly one hundred percent in a large-scale group organization.