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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.

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

American Journal of Public Health
March 13, 2025
Jeffrey P. Ebert, Ruiqi Yan, Sadie Friday, Dylan Small, Catherine C. McDonald, Kelsey Bartolozzi, and M. Kit Delgado

The simplest solution may be good, but is it good enough? Evaluating the effect of a nudge to administer calcium during blood product resuscitation for traumatic injuries

Transfusion
March 3, 2025
Daniela Schmulevich, Sarah M. Joergensen, Alea I. Zone, Kathleen E. Bishop, Andrea P. Morlok, Theresa A. Colyar, Alyson D. Hinkle, Rinad S. Beidas, M. Kit Delgado, Jeremy W. Cannon

Awaiting insurance coverage: Medicaid enrollment and post-acute care use after traumatic injury

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
March 1, 2025
Diane N Haddad, Justin S Hatchimonji, Ella C Eisinger, Angela T Chen, Kristen M Chreiman, Omar I Ramadan, Anna U Morgan, M Kit Delgado, Niels D Martin, Mark J Seamon, Lisa M Knowlton, Elinore J Kaufman

Adaptive decision support for addiction treatment to implement initiation of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in the emergency department: protocol for the ADAPT Multiphase Optimization Strategy trial

BMJ Open
February 20, 2025
Mark S. Iscoe, Carolina Diniz Hooper, Deborah R. Levy, Laurel Buchanan, James Dziura, Daniella Meeker, Richard Andrew Taylor, Gail D'Onofrio, Carol Oladele, Daniel F. Sarpong, Hyung Paek, Francis P. Wilson, Patrick J. Heagerty, Mucio Kit Delgado, Jason Hoppe, Edward R. Melnick

Clinician Views of an Opioid Prescribing Report with Peer Comparisons and Patient-Reported Outcomes

American Journal of Medical Quality
February 18, 2025

An Explanatory Mixed-methods Study of “ICU net benefit”: Triage and Trajectory for Sepsis and Acute Respiratory Failure

Annals of the American Thoracic Society
January 7, 2025
George L Anesi, Lindsay W Glassman, Erich Dress, M Kit Delgado, Fernando X Barreda, Gabriel J Escobar, Vincent X Liu, Scott D Halpern, Julia E Szymczak

Effect of providing at-home opioid disposal kits at discharge after an orthopaedic surgery

BMJ Open Quality
January 2, 2025
Eric Shan, Ruiying Xiong, Michael Katzman, Zarina Ali, Daniel Lee, M Kit Delgado, Anish Agarwal

Active Choice Nudge to Increase Screening for Primary Aldosteronism in At-Risk Patients

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
January 1, 2025
Jesse E Passman, Jasmine Hwang, Justin Tang, Madeline Fagen, Mika Epps, MaryAnne Peifer, John T Howell, Jordana B Cohen, M Kit Delgado, Heather Wachtel, Daniel S Herman

Opioid prescribing guidelines for spine surgery patients: a multisite analysis of guideline implementation and monitoring with an automated text messaging platform

Journal of Neurosurgery
December 13, 2024
Thilan Tudor, Anish K Agarwal, M Kit Delgado, Daniel J Lee, Jessica T Nguyen, Ruiying Xiong, Ali K Ozturk, Jang W Yoon, William C Welch, Zarina S Ali

Active Choice Nudge to Increase Screening for Primary Aldosteronism in At-Risk Patients

JACS
October 21, 2024
Jesse Passman, Jasmine Hwang, Justin Tang, Madeline Fagen, Mika Epps, MaryAnne Peifer, J T Howell, Jordana B Cohen, M Kit Delgado, Heather Wachtel, Daniel S Herman

Handheld Cellphone Use and Risky Driving in Adolescents

JAMA Network
October 17, 2024
Catherine C McDonald, Kevin Rix, Jeffrey P Ebert, Subhash Aryal, Ruiying Xiong, Douglas J Wiebe, M Kit Delgado

Buprenorphine-Precipitated Withdrawal Among Hospitalized Patients Using Fentanyl

JAMA Network Open
September 27, 2024
Ashish P Thakrar, Paul J Christine, Andrew Siaw-Asamoah, Anthony Spadaro, Sophia Faude, Christopher K Snider, M Kit Delgado, Margaret Lowenstein, Kyle Kampman, Jeanmarie Perrone, Lewis S Nelson, Austin S Kilaru

Emergency Medicaid enrollment after traumatic injury predicts long-term health care utilization

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
September 3, 2024
Diane N Haddad, Ella Eisinger, Justin S Hatchimonji, Angela T Chen, Omar I Ramadan, Anna U Morgan, Deacon J Lile, M Kit Delgado, James Reese, Mark J Seamon, Niels D Martin, Patrick M Reilly, Lisa M Knowlton, Elinore J Kaufman

Firearm violence and associated factors among young adults presenting to emergency departments in three cities: Baseline results from Project SPARK

Preventive Medicine
September 2, 2024
Jason E Goldstick, Patrick M Carter, Lauren Whiteside, M Kit Delgado, Philip Stallworth, Keara Sullivan, Maya Childs, Sarah Taga, Rebecca M Cunningham

A randomized trial of behavioral interventions yielding sustained reductions in distracted driving

PNAS
July 29, 2024
Jeffrey P. Ebert, Ruiying A. Xiong, Neda Khan, Dina Abdel-Rahman, Aaron Leitner, William C. Everett, Kristen L. Gaba, William J. Fisher, Catherine C. McDonald, Flaura K. Winston, Roy M. Rosin, Kevin G. Volpp, Ian J. Barnett, Douglas J. Wiebe, Scott D. Halpern, M. Kit Delgado

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