The Authors Recommend the Testing of a Behavioral Change Contract

question 9

Multiple Choice

The authors recommend the testing of a behavioral change contract which makes the costs and benefits of continuing behaviors harmful to health explicit and which physicians ask patients to sign. This suggests that patients' signatures would be needed in order to:

• A) Ensure that patients understand the consequences of not partnering with the physicians to improve their health.
• B) Protect the physician against any liabilities or quality measures which suggests that the physician did not apply practice quality guidelines
• C) To make explicit to the patient the health risks associated with failing to participate in the partnership
• D) a and b
• E) b and c
• F) All of the above
• G) None of the above

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