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Patient-practitioner relationships desired by overweight/obese adults
Patient Education and Counselling, 08/01/2012
Leske S et al. – An appropriate match between patient and practitioner characteristics facilitates collaboration which leads to trust, both of which appear to precede empowering outcomes for patients such as goal ownership and perceiving the utility of changes. Collaboration is an explicit process and precedes the patient trusting their practitioner.
