Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 84, Issue 2 , Pages 257-260 , August 2011

Asking questions: The effect of a brief intervention in community health centers on patient activation

  • Darwin Deen

      Affiliations

    • Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, The City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10038, USA. Tel.: +1 212 650 7784; fax: +1 212 650 7778.
    • ,
  • Wei-Hsin Lu

      Affiliations

    • Stony Brook University School of Medicine Stony Brook, NY USA
    • ,
  • Dan Rothstein

      Affiliations

    • Right Question Project, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Luz Santana

      Affiliations

    • Right Question Project, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Marthe R. Gold

      Affiliations

    • Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA

Received 5 February 2010 ,Revised 15 July 2010 ,Accepted 17 July 2010.

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PII: S0738-3991(10)00427-1

doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.07.026

Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 84, Issue 2 , Pages 257-260 , August 2011

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