Dec. 8, 2003 — Editor's Note: The Coaching Patients On Achieving Cardiovascular Health (COACH) strategy is highly effective in reducing total cholesterol and many other cardiovascular risk factors in ...

Many patients choose not to form healthy habits. While providers can help promote healthy habits, they may lack certain skills to effectively coach patients. Researchers proposed two coaching concepts ...

As part of healthcare reform, patient engagement is becoming an important area of focus. Most recently, patient activation, as part of engagement, has been studied; however, interventions to improve ...

Eighty-eight percent of professionals trained in health coaching reported an increased ability to engage patients as a result of the training, according to a report by the Iowa Chronic Care Consortium ...

The use of a virtual health coach positively engaged patients during exam room downtime, which resulted in an increase in patients communicating with their physician about a health topic that went ...

Multiple systematic reviews and meta-analyses have identified the effectiveness of patient education in improving cancer pain management. However, the mechanisms by which patient education improves ...

Holistic, play-based coaching can help reduce use of general anesthesia [1] and lower the risk of healthcare-induced trauma in many pediatric patients who feel anxious during MRI scans Philips Ambient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with multiple myeloma who receive high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell ...

Coaching patients to voice their concerns about their medical care and advocate for themselves can offset physicians’ racial bias so it doesn’t lead to inferior experiences for Black patients, a ...