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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
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Publications

Take a look at CHIBE’s publications, which are helping advance the science of using behavioral economics to improve health and leading to discoveries around how our minds work.

Cost-Effectiveness of Gamification, Financial Incentives, or Both to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients With Elevated Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

AHA Journals
June 17, 2025
Louise B. Russell, Kevin G. M. Volpp, Mitesh S. Patel, Neel P. Chokshi, Samantha Coratti, David Farraday, Laurie Norton, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Tamar Klaiman, Julia E. Szymczak, Dylan S. Small, Alexander C. Fanaroff

What motivates participants: a qualitative analysis of gamification and financial incentives to increase physical activity

BMC Public Health
May 16, 2025
Eric Ryu, David Farraday, Alexander C. Fanaroff, Samantha Coratti, Neel P. Chokshi, Jingsan Zhu, Julia E. Szymczak, Louise B. Russell, Laurie Norton, Dylan Small, Kevin G. Volpp & Tamar Klaiman

Nudging Clinicians to Promote Serious Illness Communication for Critically Ill Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial

JAMA Internal Medicine
March 17, 2025
Katherine R Courtright, Jaspal Singh, Erich M Dress, Brian Bayes, Michael O Harhay, Marzana Chowdhury, Yingying Lu, Kenneth M Lee, Dylan S Small, Casey Whitman, Jenny Tian, Vanessa Madden, Timothy Hetherington, Lindsay Placket, D Matthew Sullivan, Henry L Burke, Michael B Green, Scott D Halpern

Behavioral Interventions for Increasing Seat Belt Use and Decreasing Distracted Driving Using Telematics: A National Randomized Trial

AJPH
March 13, 2025
Jeffrey P. Ebert, Ruiqi Yan, Sadie Friday, Dylan Small, Catherine C. McDonald, Kelsey Bartolozzi, and M. Kit Delgado

Implementation of a Secure Firearm Storage Program in Pediatric Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial

JAMA Pediatrics
September 19, 2024
Rinad S Beidas, Kristin A Linn, Jennifer M Boggs, Steven C Marcus, Katelin Hoskins, Shari Jager-Hyman, Christina Johnson, Melissa Maye, LeeAnn Quintana, Courtney Benjamin Wolk, Leslie Wright, Celeste Pappas, Arne Beck, Katy Bedjeti, Alison M Buttenheim, Matthew F Daley, Marisa Elias, Jason Lyons, Melissa Lynne Martin, Bridget McArdle, Debra P Ritzwoller, Dylan S Small, Nathaniel J Williams, Shiling Zhang, Brian K Ahmedani

Investigating racial and gender disparities in virtual randomized clinical trial enrollment: Insights from the BE ACTIVE study

American Heart Journal
July 30, 2024
Michael P Fortunato, Anthony Girard, Samantha Coratti, David Farraday, Laurie Norton, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Neel Chokshi, Julia E Szymczak, Tamar Klaiman, Louise B Russell, Dylan S Small, Mitesh S Patel, Kevin G M Volpp, Alexander C Fanaroff

Feedback and Financial Incentives for Reducing Cell Phone Use While Driving

JAMA Network
July 10, 2024
M. Kit Delgado, Jeffrey P. Ebert, Ruiying A. Xiong, Flaura K. Winston, Catherine C. McDonald, Roy M. Rosin, Kevin G. Volpp, Ian J. Barnett, Dylan S. Small, Douglas J. Wiebe, Dina Abdel-Rahman, Jessica E. Hemmons, Rafi Finegold, Benjamin Kotrc, Emma Radford, William J. Fisher, Kristen L. Gaba, William C. Everett, Scott D. Halpern

Effect of Gamification, Financial Incentives, or Both to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients at High Risk of Cardiovascular Events: The BE ACTIVE Randomized Controlled Trial

Circulation
April 7, 2024
Alexander C. Fanaroff, Mitesh S. Patel, Neel Chokshi, Samantha Coratti, David Farraday, Laurie Norton, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Tamar Klaiman, Julia E. Szymczak, Louise B. Russell, Dylan S. Small and Kevin G.M. Volpp

Default Palliative Care Consultation for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial

JAMA Network
January 16, 2024
Katherine R. Courtright, Vanessa Madden, Brian Bayes, Marzana Chowdhury, Casey Whitman, Dylan S. Small, Michael O. Harhay, Suzanne Parra, Elizabeth Cooney-Zingman, Mary Ersek, Gabriel J. Escobar, Sarah H. Hill, Scott D. Halpern

Using Remotely Monitored Patient Activity Patterns After Hospital Discharge To Predict 30 Day Hospital Readmission: A Randomized Trial

Scientific Reports
May 22, 2023
Mitesh S. Patel, Kevin G. Volpp, Dylan S. Small, Genevieve P. Kanter, Sae-Hwan Park, Chalanda N. Evans, Daniel Polsky

Racial Disparities in Length of Stay Among Severely Ill Patients Presenting With Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure

JAMA Network Open
May 9, 2023
Christopher F. Chesley, Marzana Chowdhury, Dylan S. Small, Douglas Schaubel, Vincent X. Liu, Meghan B. Lane-Fall, Scott D. Halpern, George L. Anesi

How Physician Self-Perceptions Affect the Impact of Peer Comparison Feedback on Opioid Prescribing

American Journal of Medical Quality
April 5, 2023
Joshua M. Liao, Chuxuan Sun, Xiaowei S. Yan, Mitesh S. Patel, Dylan S. Small, William M. Isenberg, Howard M. Landa, Barbara L. Bond, Charles A. L. Rareshide, Kevin G. Volpp, M. Kit Delgado, Victor J. Lei, Zijun Shen, Amol S. Navathe

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Gamification, Financial Incentives, or Both to Increase Physical Activity Among Patients with Elevated Risk for Cardiovascular Disease: Rationale and Design of the BE ACTIVE Study

American Heart Journal
March 2, 2023
Alexander C. Fanaroff, Mitesh S. Patel, Neel Chokshi, Samantha Coratti, David Farraday, Laurie Norton, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Julia E. Szymczak, Louise B. Russell, Dylan S. Small, Kevin G. M. Volpp

Long-Term Effect of Machine Learning–Triggered Behavioral Nudges on Serious Illness Conversations and End-of-Life Outcomes Among Patients With Cancer

JAMA Oncology
January 12, 2023
Christopher R. Manz, MD; Yichen Zhang, PhD; Kan Chen, MA; Qi Long, PhD; Dylan S. Small, PhD; Chalanda N. Evans, BS; Corey Chivers, PhD; Susan H. Regli, PhD; C. William Hanson, MD; Justin E. Bekelman, MD; Jennifer Braun, MHA, RN, BSN; Charles A. L. Rareshide, MS; Nina O’Connor, MD; Pallavi Kumar, MD, MPH; Lynn M. Schuchter, MD; Lawrence N. Shulman, MD; Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA; Ravi B. Parikh, MD, MPP

Effect of Nudges to Clinicians, Patients, or Both to Increase Statin Prescribing: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Cardiology
December 1, 2022
Srinath Adusumalli, Genevieve P. Kanter, Dylan S. Small, David A. Asch, Kevin G. Volpp, Sae-Hwan Park, Yevgeniy Gitelman, David Do, Damien Leri, Corinne Rhodes, Christine VanZandbergen, John T. Howell, Mika Epps, Ann M. Cavella, Michael Wenger, Tory O. Harrington, Kayla Clark, Julie E. Westover, Christopher K. Snider, Mitesh S. Patel

Equitable Implementation of S.A.F.E. Firearm: A Multi-Method Pilot Study

Preventive Medicine
September 30, 2022
Katelin Hoskins, Kristin A. Linn, Brian K. Ahmedani, Jennifer M. Boggs, Christina Johnson, Jonathan Heintz, Steven C. Marcus, Isabelle Kaminer, Celeste Zabel, Leslie Wright, LeeAnn Quintana, Alison M. Buttenheim, Matthew F. Daley, Marisa E. Elias, Shari Jager-Hyman, Adina Lieberman, Jason Lyons, Melissa Maye, Bridget McArdle, Debra P. Ritzwoller, Dylan S. Small, Joslyn Westphal, Courtney Benjamin Wolk, Shiling Zhang, Rachel C. Shelton, Rinad S. Beidas