Helping Patients Adopt Healthier Behaviors

Autor: Connie Davis, Halsted R. Holman, Thomas Bodenheimer
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Clinical Diabetes. 25:66-70
ISSN: 1945-4953
0891-8929
DOI: 10.2337/diaclin.25.2.66
Popis: Assisting patients to improve health-related behaviors is an important responsibility of caregivers, including physicians, nurses, health educators, and counselors. From 1992 to 2000, diet and physical activity counseling took place in < 45 and 30%, respectively, of primary care physician visits by adults with coronary heart disease risk factors. 1 Physicians in primary care seldom have time to engage in such discussions and may be unsure how to discuss behavior change with their patients; 1-3
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