1. Improvement of Patients' Health Confidence
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John H. Wasson, Adam Schwarz, Mark Nunlist, John Watt Haresch, and Lynn Ho
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Male ,Patient Activation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Sample (statistics) ,Patient engagement ,Primary care ,Medical care ,Proxy (climate) ,Nursing ,medicine ,Humans ,Qualitative Research ,Physician-Patient Relations ,Primary Health Care ,Adult patients ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,Foundation (evidence) ,Middle Aged ,Self Efficacy ,United States ,Self Care ,Family medicine ,Chronic Disease ,Female ,Patient Participation ,business - Abstract
Patient health confidence is an easy-to-obtain proxy measure for patient engagement and patient activation. In evidence-based literature syntheses, longitudinal studies, and empiric analyses, this measure is related to desirable consequence of medical care. Adult patients from 15 primary care practices and a national sample report on changes in health confidence over time. Exemplary practices describe how this information is used as a foundation for behaviorally sophisticated actions so necessary for improving health confidence.
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- 2013
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