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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.

Achieving Goals of Care Decisions in Chronic Critical Illness: A Multi-institutional Qualitative Study

Chest
February 16, 2024
Sarah K. Andersen, Yanran Yang, Erin K. Kross, Barbara Haas, Anna Geagea, Teresa L. May, Joanna Hart, Sean M. Bagshaw, Elizabeth Dzeng, Baruch Fischhoff, Douglas B. White

Nudging During Pediatric Intensive Care Conferences With Family Members: Retrospective Analysis of Transcripts From a Single-Center, 2015–2019

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
February 8, 2024
Aliza M. Olive, Asdis Finnsdottir Wagner, Daniel T. Mulhall, Tessie W. October, Joanna L. Hart, Ashley K. Sherman, Jessica S. Wallisch, Laura Miller-Smith

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.

Preferences for Predictive Model Characteristics Among People Living With Chronic Lung Disease: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Medical Decision Making
June 12, 2020
Gary E Weissman, Kuldeep N Yadav , Trishya Srinivasan, Stephanie Szymanski, Florylene Capulong, Vanessa Madden, Katherine R Courtright , Joanna L Hart, David A Asch, Sarah J Ratcliffe, Marilyn M Schapira, Scott D Halpern,

Effect Of Intensivist Communication In A Simulated Setting On Interpretation Of Prognosis Among Family Members Of Patients At High Risk Of Intensive Care Unit Admission: A Randomized Trial

JAMA Network
April 1, 2020
Ian M. Oppenheim, MD: Emma M. Lee, BA: Scott T. Vasher, MD: Sandra E. Zaeh, MD, MS: Joanna L. Hart, MD, MSHP: Alison E. Turnbull, DVM, MPH, PhD

Clinicians’ Perceptions of Behavioral Economic Strategies to Increase the Use of Lung-Protective Ventilation

ATS Journals
May 20, 2019
Mili Mehta, Joshua Veith, Stephanie Szymanski, Vanessa Madden, Joanna Lee Hart, and Meeta Prasad

Patients’ Perspectives on Approaches to Facilitate Completion of Advance Directives

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
January 30, 2019
Joshua A. Rolnic, MD, JD; Judy A. Shea, PhD; Joanna L. Hart, MD, MS; Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD

Perspectives On Using Decision-Making Nudges in Physician-Patient Communications

Plos One
September 18, 2018
Joanna Hart, MD, MSHP; Kuldeep N. Yadav, BA; E. Tory Higgins PhD; Ilona Fridman PhD

Conflict Management by Physicians: A Heavy Hand in Preference-Sensitive Decisions

Annals of the American Thoracic Society
February 1, 2018
Joanna L. Hart, MD, MSHP

Are Demographic Characteristics Associated with Advance Directive Completion? A Secondary Analysis of Two Randomized Trials

Journal of General Internal Medicine
November 20, 2017
Joanna L. Hart, MD MSHP; Nicole B. Gabler, PhD; Elizabeth Cooney, MPH; Brian Bayes, MS; Kuldeep N. Yadav, BA; Cindy Bryce, PhD; and Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD

Interpreting “Do Not Resuscitate”: A Cautionary Tale of Physician Influence

Annals of the American Thoracic Society
April 1, 2017
Joanna L. Hart, MD, MSHP; Meeta Prasad Kerlin, MD, MSCE.

Thinking Forward: Future-Oriented Thinking Among Patients with Tobacco-Associated Thoracic Diseases and Their Surrogates

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
February 1, 2016
Joanna L. Hart, M.D., M.S.H.P.; Emily Pflug, B.A.; Vanessa Madden, B.Sc. Hons.; Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D.

Variability Among US Intensive Care Units in Managing the Care of Patients Admitted with Preexisting Limits on Life-Sustaining Therapies

JAMA Internal Medicine
June 1, 2015
Joanna L. Hart, M.D., M.S.H.P.; Michael O. Harhay, M.P.H., M.Sc.; Nicole B. Gabler, Ph.D., M.H.A.; Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Ph.D.; Caroline M. Quill, M.D.; Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D.

Default Options in the ICU: Widely Used but Insufficiently Understood

Curr Opin Crit Care
December 1, 2014
Joanna L. Hart, M.D., M.S.H.P.; Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D.