Are healthcare professionals advising obese patients to lose weight? A trend analysis CME

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Abid, Omer ^a   Galuska, Deborah ^a   Khan, Laura Kettel ^a   Gillespie, Cathleen ^a   Ford, Earl S ^a   Serdula, Mary K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TELEPHONE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUNSELING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

COUNSELING; HUMANS; OBESITY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 27844550245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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