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Using Action Plans to Help Primary Care Patients Adopt Healthy Behaviors: A Descriptive Study

Margaret Handley, Kate MacGregor, Dean Schillinger, Claire Sharifi, Sharon Wong and Thomas Bodenheimer
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2006, 19 (3) 224-231; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.19.3.224
Margaret Handley
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Dean Schillinger
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vol. 19 no. 3 224-231
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.19.3.224
PubMed 
16672675

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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1557-2625
Online ISSN 
1558-7118
History 
  • Received for publication September 7, 2005
  • Revision received November 7, 2005
  • Accepted for publication November 14, 2005
  • Published online May 3, 2006.

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  1. Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH,
  2. Kate MacGregor, MPH,
  3. Dean Schillinger, MD,
  4. Claire Sharifi,
  5. Sharon Wong, MPH and
  6. Thomas Bodenheimer, MD
  1. From the Department of Family and Community Medicine (MH, KM, CS, SW, TB), University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  2. Division of General Internal Medicine (DS), University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  1. Corresponding author: Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, Building 80-83, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110 (E-mail: tbodenheimer{at}fcm.ucsf.edu)
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Margaret Handley, Kate MacGregor, Dean Schillinger, Claire Sharifi, Sharon Wong, Thomas Bodenheimer
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2006, 19 (3) 224-231; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.19.3.224

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Margaret Handley, Kate MacGregor, Dean Schillinger, Claire Sharifi, Sharon Wong, Thomas Bodenheimer
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2006, 19 (3) 224-231; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.19.3.224
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