Coaching Patients for Successful Self-Management

March 22, 2011

Developing an action plan to support healthy behavior change can help ensure patients are taking their medications appropriately, says one expert.

In this video presentation, Tom Bodenheimer, MD, MPH, a physician at San Francisco General Hospital, discusses how to develop an action plan to support healthy behavior change and ensure patients are taking their medications appropriately, and stresses the important of communication and trust between care providers and patients.