The HOPE note addresses the social, behavioral, environmental, and spiritual components required for managing complex, chronic diseases. Working through the questions with the patient helps engage them in shared decision-making about their health and healing, putting them front and center in the care plan. Best of all, it brings out the patient’s own intuition about what they most need to heal and combines that with your knowledge of the evidence for what heals.
The goal is to reframe the patient/physician orientation from one of disease treatment to one that emphasizes health promotion and self-healing while integrating evidence-based complementary and lifestyle approaches into conventional medical care.
