Preventive care. Steps toward implementation.
Economic, professional, and consumer forces are pushing prevention to the forefront of health care. Providing preventive care is an effective and valuable service physicians offer patients; however, changing practice styles to routinely incorporate preventive care can be difficult. This article discusses strategies to facilitate the implementation of preventive care in office practice and is based on proven techniques that have helped patients change their undesirable behaviors.
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Department of Family Medicine, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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