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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
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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.

On Anticipation Effect in Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials

Statistics in Medicine
February 10, 2026
Hao Wang, Xinyuan Chen, Katherine R Courtright, Scott D Halpern, Michael O Harhay, Monica Taljaard, Fan Li

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

Barriers and Facilitators of Surrogates Providing Consent for Critically Ill Patients in Clinical Trials: A Qualitative Study

CHEST
August 1, 2024
Dustin C. Krutsinger, Shannon I. Maloney, Katherine R. Courtright, Karsten Bartels

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

Detecting Goals of Care Conversations in Clinical Notes with Active Learning

medRxiv
January 4, 2024
Davy Weissenbacher, Katherine Courtright, Siddharth Rawal, Andrew Crane-Droesch, Karen O’Connor, Nicholas Kuhl, Corinne Merlino, Anessa Foxwell, Lindsay Haines, Joseph Puhl, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez

Evaluating Equity in Performance of an Electronic Health Record-Based 6-Month Mortality Risk Model To Trigger Palliative Care Consultation: A Retrospective Model Validation Analysis

BMJ Quality & Safety
March 31, 2023
Stephanie Teeple, Corey Chivers, Kristin A. Linn, Scott D. Halpern, Nwamaka Eneanya, Michael Draugelis, Katherine Courtright

Performance Drift in a Mortality Prediction Algorithm Among Patients With Cancer During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
January 18, 2023
Ravi B. Parikh, Yichen Zhang, Likhitha Kolla, Corey Chivers, Katherine R. Courtright, Jingsan Zhu, Amol S. Navathe, Jinbo Chen

Performance Drift in a Mortality Prediction Algorithm Among Patients With Cancer During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

JAMIA Open
November 21, 2022
Ravi B. Parikh, Yichen Zhang, Likhitha Kolla, Corey Chivers, Katherine R. Courtright, Jingsan Zhu, Amol S. Navathe, Jinbo Chen

COVID-19: An opportunity to rethink advance care planning conversations in acute serious illness

Pallative Medicine
January 28, 2022
Auriemma CL, Eneanya ND, Courtright KR

Deficits in Identification of Goals and Goal-Concordant Care After Sepsis Hospitalization

Journal of Hospital Medicine
October 13, 2021
Taylor SP, Kowalkowski MA, Courtright KR, Burke HL, Patel S, Hicks S, Hurley C, Mitchell S, Halpern SD

Implementing automated prognostic models to inform palliative care: more than just the algorithm

BMJ Journals
May 17, 2021
Bange EM, Courtright KR, Parikh RB.

A Qualitative Analysis of Factors Influencing Critical Care Trial Enrollment Among Surrogates

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine
March 3, 2021
Krutsinger DC, Hetland BD, O'Leary KL, Halpern SD, Courtright KR.

“I Don’t Have Time to Sit and Talk with Them”: Hospitalists’ Perspectives on Palliative Care Consultation for Patients with Dementia

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
August 3, 2020
Katherine R. Courtright, Trishya L. Srinivasan, Vanessa L. Madden, Jason Karlawish, Stephanie Szymanski, Sarah H. Hill PhD Scott D. Halpern MD, PhD Mary Ersek PhD, RN,

Pragmatic Trials and the Evolution of Serious Illness Research

JAMA Internal Medicine
July 6, 2020
Katherine R. Courtright, Scott D. Halpern

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,

A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges to Improve Enrollment in Critical Care Trials

Annals of the American Thoracic Society
May 22, 2020
Dustin C Krutsinger, Kelly L O'Leary, Susan S Ellenberg, Cody E Cotner, Scott D Halpern, Katherine R Courtright