• Work toward true collaboration. Patients and physicians should work together effectively.
• Set goals patients and physicians can agree upon. The better physicians and patients understand one another, the better the course of care.
• Communicate. Keeping an open line of communication between physicians and patients is the most important aspect of patient engagement.
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