Stage of change for making an informed decision about medicare health plans

Health Services Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4 I, 2006, Pages 1372-1391

  Levesque, Deborah A ^a   Cummins, Carol O ^a   Prochaska, Janice M ^a   Prochaska, James O ^b  

^a Pro Change Behavior Systems Incorporated   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumers; Health insurance; Informed decision making; Medicare; Transtheoretical model of change (TTM)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAID; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICARE; RANDOMIZATION; SELF CONCEPT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MEDICARE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 33746370371     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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