Published on in Vol 21, No 8 (2019): August

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/12483, first published .
Patient Commitment to Health (PACT-Health) in the Heart Failure Population: A Focus Group Study of an Active Communication Framework for Patient-Centered Health Behavior Change

Patient Commitment to Health (PACT-Health) in the Heart Failure Population: A Focus Group Study of an Active Communication Framework for Patient-Centered Health Behavior Change

Patient Commitment to Health (PACT-Health) in the Heart Failure Population: A Focus Group Study of an Active Communication Framework for Patient-Centered Health Behavior Change

Daniella Meeker   1 , PhD ;   Jordan Goldberg   2 , BA ;   Katherine K Kim   3 , PhD, MPH, MBA ;   Desi Peneva   4 , MS ;   Hugo De Oliveira Campos   5 ;   Ross Maclean   4 , MD ;   Van Selby   6 , MD ;   Jason N Doctor   7 , PhD

1 Department of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States

2 stickK.com, New York City, NY, United States

3 Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States

4 Precision Health Economics, Los Angeles, CA, United States

5 Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, United States

6 Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

7 Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Jason N Doctor, PhD
  • Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
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