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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.

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

Among-Hospital Variation in ICU Admission Practices and Associated Outcomes for Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure

Annals of the American Thoracic Society
July 28, 2022
George L. Anesi, Erich Dress, Marzana Chowdhury, Wei Wang, Dylan S. Small, M. Kit Delgado, Brian Bayes, Julia E. Szymczak, Lindsay W. Glassman, Fernando X. Barreda, Jonathan Z. Weiner, Gabriel J. Escobar, Scott D. Halpern, Vincent X. Liu

Effect of a Default Order vs an Alert in the Electronic Health Record on Hepatitis C Virus Screening Among Hospitalized Patients

JAMA Network Open
March 17, 2022
Shivan J. Mehta, MD, MBA, MSHP; Jessie Torgersen, MD, MHS, MSCE; Dylan S. Small, PhD; Colleen P. Mallozzi, MBA, RN; John D. McGreevey III, MD; Charles A.L. Rareshide, MS, Chalanda N. Evans, MPH; Mika Epps, RN, MSN; David Stabile, RN, MSN; Christopher K. Snider, MPH; Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA

The Effect Of Clinician Feedback Interventions On Opioid Prescribing

Health Affairs
March 7, 2022
Amol S. Navathe, Joshua M. Liao, Xiaowei S. Yan, M. Kit Delgado, William M. Isenberg, Howard M. Landa, Barbara L. Bond, Dylan S. Small, Charles A. L. Rareshide, Zijun Shen, Rebecca S. Pepe, Farah Refai, Victor J. Lei, Kevin G. Volpp, and Mitesh S. Patel

Study protocol for a type III hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of strategies to implement firearm safety promotion as a universal suicide prevention strategy in pediatric primary care

Implementation Science
September 22, 2021
Beidas RS, Ahmedani BK, Linn KA, Marcus SC, Johnson C, Maye M, Westphal J, Wright L, Beck AL, Buttenheim AM, Daley MF, Davis M, Elias ME, Jager-Hyman S, Hoskins K, Lieberman A, McArdle B, Ritzwoller DP, Small DS, Wolk CB, Williams NJ, Boggs JM

Effect of Goal-Setting Approaches Within a Gamification Intervention to Increase Physical Activity Among Economically Disadvantaged Adults at Elevated Risk for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events

JAMA Cardiology
September 1, 2021
Patel MS, Bachireddy C, Small DS, Harrison JD, Harrington TO, Oon AL, Rareshide CAL, Snider CK, Volpp KG

Comparing Smoking Cessation Interventions among Underserved Patients Referred for Lung Cancer Screening: A Pragmatic Trial Protocol

Annals of the American Thoracic Society
August 12, 2021
Kohn R, Vachani A, Small D, Stephens-Shields AJ, Sheu D, Madden VL, Bayes BA, Chowdhury M, Friday S, Kim J, Gould MK, Ismail MH, Creekmur B, Facktor MA, Collins C, Blessing KK, Neslund-Dudas CM, Simoff MJ, Alleman ER, Epstein LH, Horst MA, Scott ME, Volpp KG, Halpern SD, Hart JL.

Implementing nudges to promote utilization of low tidal volume ventilation (INPUT): a stepped-wedge, hybrid type III trial of strategies to improve evidence-based mechanical ventilation management

Implementation Science
August 10, 2021
Kerlin MP, Small D, Fuchs BD, Mikkelsen ME, Wang W, Tran T, Scott S, Belk A, Silvestri JA, Klaiman T, Halpern SD, Beidas RS.

Effect of Gamification With and Without Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity Among Veterans Classified as Having Obesity or Overweight: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Network Open
July 9, 2021
Dylan Small