Health-coaching strategies to improve patient-centered outcomes.

and other sources, the physician-patient interaction is crucial to the PCMH ap-proach to ensure the rapport-building and engagement that leads to an optimal clinical relationship.1 This interaction is also critical for improving outcomes in cases where the patient receives chronic care management, such as in the treat-ment of dyslipidemia, when therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) and medication adherence play such a key role in deter-mining treatment success. Using tech-niques from the behavior change science arena can serve to improve adherence to TLC and medication, and it is in this ca-