Table 1.

Action Plan Completion Rates and Post-Visit Questionnaires

	Safety Net (n = 128) (%)		Private Practice (n = 146) (%)		Overall (n = 274) (%)
Completed action plans	82		84		83
Clinician post-action plan discussion questionnaires returned	92		92		92
For patients with action plan	93		93		93
For patients without action plan	86		87		86
Clinician reasons for not completing action plans^*
Patient too ill	44		15		29
Too little time	28		50		39
Patient not interested	17		10		13
Other	11		25		18
Clinician satisfaction with discussion^†
No different than previous behavior change discussions	32		24		28
Less satisfying than previous discussions	8		6		7
More satisfying than previous discussions	42		50		47
Not applicable^‡	16		16		16
Question not answered	<1		4		3
Estimated time to complete action plan discussions (minutes)^§	Safety Net (n = 93)		Private Practice (n = 113)		Overall (n = 216)
	Average	Range	Average	Range	Average	Range
	6.9	1 to 20	6.8	1 to 20	6.9	1 to 20
SD	4.5		4.1		4.32

* Mantel-Haenszel χ²; P = .03
† Response to question: ′Was today’s discussion about behavior change more satisfying, less satisfying, or no different than previous behavior change discussions with this patient (or not applicable)?′
‡ Patients for whom an action plan was not developed for reasons of time, patient illness, new patient, etc.
§ For 12 action plans discussions, clinicians did not estimate the time; thus the n = 216 rather than 228.