Projects

  • REDUCE: A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Economic Approaches to Reduce Unnecessary Opioid Prescribing
  • Kentucky Population Survey on Medicaid Waiver Policy
  • Active vs. Passive Choice Framing to Increase Statin Prescribing Among Cardiologists
  • The Be Active Trial
  • Gamification and Goal-Setting to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients with Elevated Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
  • Specialist Transformation in Hawaii: the Design of Orthopedic, Oncology, and Cardiology Bundled Payment Programs
  • Improving Assessment of and Response to Depression in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Care
  • Comparing Smoking Cessation Interventions among Underserved Patients Referred for Lung Cancer Screening
  • Interventions to Alleviate Loneliness Among Migrant Workers in India
  • Social incentives and gamification to encourage physical activity and social support among high-risk postpartum women
  • Pilot trial of gamification to treat apathy in Parkinson’s disease
  • Behavioral Phenotyping Approaches for Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes
  • Adherence to Oral Anticancer Agents: Benchmarking, Landscape Assessment and Intervention Design
  • Leveraging social and sexual networks to reach young men with HIV testing and linkage services
  • Testing Strategies for Couple Engagement in PMTCT and Family Health in Kenya
  • Active vs. passive choice framing to increase statin prescribing among cardiologists
  • Parents Quit IT: Tailored Messaging and Decision Support to Help Parents Quit Smoking in Pediatric Settings
  • Behavioral Economics and Population-based Colorectal Cancer Screening
  • A large-scale, long-term randomized trial of nutrition labeling interventions
  • Behavioral Economic Approaches to Increase Physical Activity among Patients with Elevated Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
  • A randomized trial of web-based behavioral economic interventions to promote healthy food choices among food pantry clients.
  • Gamification and social incentives to improve glycemic control among obese diabetic adults
  • Enhancing enrollment of dyads in dementia research
  • Connected Health to Decrease Opioid Use in Patients with Chronic Pain
  • Connected health and the opioid crisis: behavioral economic approaches to increase naloxone uptake
  • A scalable, patient-centered approach for “right-sizing” opioid prescribing
  • Financial Incentives for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia in Patients with PTSD
  • A Neuroeconomics Approach to Biomarker Discovery in Depression
  • Understanding context of integrated behavioral health services from primary care and behavioral health provider perspectives:
  • Identifying barriers to implementing Natural Environment Training in early intervention settings
  • Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Promote Teacher Consultation Among School Behavioral Health Clinicians
  • Understanding and Improving Health System Disparities in ED Wait Times
  • mPeer2Peer: Evaluating incentive structures for a novel implementation of peer to peer recruitment using mobile devices
  • Inducing Deception: Does Paying Research Participants Cause Them to Lie?
  • Effectiveness of Social Incentive and Digital Exercise Prescriptions to Improve Cardiovascular Fitness Among High-Risk Patients
  • Normative Feedback and Framing Incentives to Encourage Sleep Extension in Children
  • BE Smokefree: Behavioral Economics Incentives to Engage Adolescents in Smoking Cessation
  • PennPRO: Automated patient-reported outcome collection among oncology patients
  • Automated Navigation to Improve Colonoscopy Show Rate and Preparation
  • Comparison of a Novel Web-based Advance Directive Platform to a Standard Advance Directive: Randomized Evaluation
  • Social Incentives to Encourage Physical Activity and Understand Predictors
  • Comparing Social vs. Financial Gamification to Increase Physical Activity among Veterans
  • Preventing non-communicable diseases in Guatemala through sugary drink reduction and capacity building
  • Pilot trial testing feasibility and effectiveness of using SmokeBeat to monitor and increase smoking abstinence in pregnant women
  • Transforming Mental Health Delivery through Behavioral Economics and Implementation Science
  • Improving Medication Adherence and Outcomes among HIV Patients in the United States
  • VBID Incentives to Improve Medication Adherence and Outcomes among Racial/Ethnic Minority Patients in United States with HIV
  • Optimizing Outcome Predictions among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • StepUp Program
  • Using Default Options to Decrease Opioid Prescribing Durations
  • Lottery prizes and experimental evaluation of cohort retention during adolescence
  • Effects of Financial Incentives in Trial Participation
  • Enhancing Trial Enrollment for Advanced Heart Disease
  • A Randomized Trial of Nudges To Enhance Enrollment in Critical Care Research
  • Remote Monitoring and Social Support for Hypertension Management
  • Leveraging Connected Health to Improve Mobility in Hospitalized Seniors
  • Physical Health Outcomes in Anxiety Disorder Treatment
  • Impact of SMS Messaging on Medication Adherence in High Utilizing Patients
  • Changing Behavior in Hospitalized Seniors with Healthy Mobility to Reduce Harms of Hospitalization
  • Preferences for predictive information about future health states among patients with life-limiting illness
  • Structuring Incentives to Attract and Retain Wellness Program Participants
  • Nudging and Boosting Exercise Implementation Intentions
  • Lottery Incentives Convey Vaccine Efficacy
  • Safer Food Allergy Management for Adolescents
  • Using Defaults Options to Decrease Unnecessary Imaging for Palliative Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy
  • Improving HPV Vaccination Rates in Pediatric Practices: The STOP HPV Trial
  • Leveraging Primary Care Social Networks to Reduce Inequities in Cancer Risk
  • Right Sizing Opioid Prescriptions Following Orthopedic Surgery Using Patient-Feedback Data and Electronic Medical Record Orderset Defaults
  • Prognosticating Outcomes and Nudging Decisions with Electronic Records in the ICU (PONDER-ICU)
  • Tailored Adherence Incentives in Childhood Asthma
  • Our Care Wishes
  • Increasing nursing motivation to conduct clinical research in a pragmatic clinical trial
  • A randomized trial of different trajectories of financial incentives to optimize recruitment and retention in research
  • Gamification and energetic behavior change in adolescent-parent dyads with obesity
  • Behavioral economic incentives and cancer health risk assessment
  • Evaluating the Philadelphia beverage tax
  • Patient and Physician Predictors of Appropriate Statin Prescription
  • A Randomized Trial of Cognitive vs. Behavioral Incentives to Induce Sustained Healthy Oral Hygiene Habits and Improve Oral Health
  • Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-Tests: an Innovative Strategy for Promoting Male Partner Testing and Reducing Risk
  • IBIS-Health study: Innovative incentive strategies for sustainable HIV testing and linkage to care
  • HMSA Member Consumer Engagement
  • Flu2Text
  • Using Active Choice and Peer Comparisons to Increase Statin Prescription Rates
  • Using Default Options to Increase Referral to Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • iDiabetes: Influencing Diabetics to Adapt Behaviors related to Exercise and Weight by Enhancing Social Incentives
  • Evaluating Connected Health Approaches to Improve the Health of Veterans
  • Choosing the Light Meal: Dynamic Aggregation of Calorie Information to Reduce Consumption
  • Next Generation Real-time Monitoring for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Adherence in Young Kenyan Women
  • Capturing symptom progression and the physical and cognitive activities of patients daily following concussion using Way To Health
  • Increasing physical activity to decrease post-operative morbidity
  • Project LIFT: Lifestyle intervention to promote fitness in transplantation
  • Influence of increased physical activity on patient reported measures of disease activity in inflammatory arthritis
  • Pilot trial leveraging smartphone-paired breathalyzers and incentives for reducing binge drinking and drinking and driving
  • Physician Competency in the Use of Choice Architecture
  • Choice Architecture and Mailed Outreach for Colorectal Cancer Screening
  • Communicating the Health Risks of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
  • Perspectives on the Intentional Use of Benevolent Deception in Patient & Physician Communication
  • The Economic and Psychological Effects of Chronic Pain among Low-income Workers
  • Increasing the Impact of Restaurant Menu Labeling
  • Causes and Consequences of Low Caloric Intake in India: Nutrition, Productivity, and Cognition
  • Transforming Provider Payments
  • Randomized Evaluation of Trial Acceptability by Incentive (RETAIN)
  • Automated Hovering for Congestive Heart Failure Patients: EMPOWER
  • Smarter Big Data for a Healthy Pennsylvania: Changing the Paradigm of Healthcare
  • Intuition and Deliberation in Decisions about Life-Sustaining Medical Interventions
  • Promoting Interfamily Accountability for Reducing Cellphone Use While Driving in Adults and their Teen Children: A Pilot Trial
  • Way to Cure: Developing Effective Strategies to Promote Adherence to Hepatitis C Therapy among Older Adults
  • Can the Endowment Effect be Used to Increase the Power of Health Incentives?
  • Chronic Sleep Deprivation Among the Poor – A Lab-And-Field Approach in India
  • Agricultural Intervention for Food Security and HIV Health Outcomes in Kenya (Shamba Maisha)
  • Incentives, NRT, and e-cigarettes: Examining the effectiveness of different cessation efforts on smoking cessation in the Vitality Group
  • The Impact of Active Choice on Completion Rates of Advanced Directives in New Employees of an Academic University Hospital
  • Randomized Evaluation of Default Access to Palliative Services (REDAPS)
  • CDC Prevention Research Center
  • Vitality Healthy Basket
  • Improving participation in vector control campaigns through behavioral economics
  • Process Versus Outcomes Incentives for Lipid Management
  • Vitalitydrive Study
  • Default Options in Advance Directives for Patients with Serious Illnesses
  • A Randomized Trial of Financial Incentives for Maintenance of Weight Loss