Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 79, Issue 3 , Pages 344-350 , June 2010

Patient use of weight-management activities: A comparison of patient and physician assessments

  • Sara N. Bleich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 624 N. Broadway, Room 451, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Tel.: +1 410 502 6604; fax: +1 410 614 9152.
    • ,
  • Mary Margaret Huizinga

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
    • Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA
    • ,
  • Mary Catherine Beach

      Affiliations

    • Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA
    • ,
  • Lisa A. Cooper

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
    • Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA

Received 26 August 2009 ,Revised 28 January 2010 ,Accepted 29 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.01.020

Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 79, Issue 3 , Pages 344-350 , June 2010

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