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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.

Prevention of urinary stones with hydration: a randomised clinical trial of an adherence intervention

The Lancet
March 21, 2026
Alana C. Desai, Naim M. Maalouf, Jonathan D. Harper, Sri Sivalingam, John C. Lieske, H. Henry Lai, Peter P. Reese, Hunter Wessells, Hongqiu Yang, Hussein R. Al-Khalidi, Ziya Kirkali, Gregory E. Tasian, Charles D. Scales Jr.; Urinary Stone Disease Network Investigators

Clinician nudge to gynecologic oncology referral at suspected ovarian cancer diagnosis: a pilot study

Cancer Control
February 19, 2026
Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith, Shivan J Mehta, Tessa Cook, Charlie Chambers, Shavon Rochester, Hanna Zafar, Lisa Jones, Elizabeth A Howell, Anne Marie McCarthy, Justin Bekelman

Targeting behavioral interventions based on past behavior: Evidence from vaccine uptake

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
January 1, 2026
Ilana Brody, Hengchen Dai, Silvia Saccardo, Katherine L. Milkman, Angela L. Duckworth, Mitesh S. Patel, Dena M. Gromet

Pediatric Healthcare Worker Perspectives on Implementation of a Secure Firearm Storage Program: A Qualitative Study

Preprint*
January 1, 2026
Claire R Waller, Mallika Pande, Jennifer M Boggs, Arne Beck, Ruth P Bedoy, Alison M Buttenheim, Marisa E Elias, Katelin Hoskins, Shari Jager-Hyman, Christina Johnson, Melissa Maye, Bridget McArdle, Celeste Pappas, Dylan S Small, LeeAnn M Quintana, Courtney Benjamin Wolk, Leslie A Wright, Nathaniel J Williams, Brian K Ahmedani, Rinad S Beidas

In a shifting policy era: California provider knowledge and practice of medical exemption laws during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vaccine
January 1, 2026
Holly B Schuh, Paul Delamater, Tina M Proveaux, Matthew Z Dudley, Alison M Buttenheim, Jason L Schwartz, Nicola P Klein, Kristin Goddard, Kavin M Patel, Saad B Omer, Daniel A Salmon

Use of Large Language Models to Determine the Surveillance Colonoscopy Interval: A Bi-institutional Validation Study

The American Journal of Gastroenterology
November 24, 2025
Vedant Acharya, Shivan J Mehta, Daniel A Sussman, Vignesh Kumaresan, Jonathan England, Tessa S Cook, S Barry Issenberg, Amar R Deshpande

Changes in Health Care Utilization and Low-Value Service Use After Risk-Based Contract Adoption in Medicare Advantage

JAMA Internal Medicine
November 10, 2025
Aaron L. Schwartz, Soohyun Kim, Sumedha Chhatre, Amanda Sutherland, Aina Katsikas, Sara Riaz, Gosia Sylwestrzak, Emily Boudreau, Amol S. Navathe

Making Choices: A Multi-institutional, Longitudinal Cohort Study Assessing Changes in Treatment Outcome Valuation for Low-risk Thyroid Cancer

Annals of Surgery
August 1, 2025
Alexis G Antunez, Brandy R Sinco, Megan C Saucke, Kyle J Bushaw, Catherine B Jensen, Sophie Dream, Abbey L Fingeret, Masha J Livhits, Aarti Mathur, Alexandria McDow, Sanziana A Roman, Corrine I Voils, Justin Sydnor, Susan C Pitt, CHOiCE Collaborative

Peer and Patient Feedback to Increase Adherence to Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Guidelines

JAMA Surgery
June 11, 2025
Anish K. Agarwal, MD, MPH, MS; Jeffrey P. Ebert, PhD; Ruiying Xiong, MS; Zarina S. Ali, MD, MS; Daniel Lee, MD; Frances Shofer, PhD; Yevgeniy Gitelman, MD; David Do, MD; Evan A. Spencer, MS; E. Madeline Grenader, BS; Fan Li, PhD; Michael O. Harhay, PhD, MPH; M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS

Access to Surgical Care After Newly Acquired Insurance Enrollment

Annals of Surgery
June 9, 2025
Angela T. Chen, Diane Haddad, Ella Eisinger, Mucio Kit Delgado, Joseph A. Kern, Lisa M. Knowlton, Deacon Lile, Anna U. Morgan, Omar I. Ramadan, Lin Xu, Elinore J. Kaufman

Harnessing Behavioral Economics to Accelerate Implementation in Rehabilitation

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
May 9, 2025
Kimberly J Waddell, Miriam R Rafferty, Jessica Edelstein, Rinad S Beidas

Harnessing Implementation Science in Clinical Psychology: Past, Present, and Future

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
May 1, 2025
Rinad S Beidas, Meredith Boyd, Elizabeth Casline, Kelli Scott, Zabin Patel-Syed, Chynna Mills, Brian Mustanski, Simone Schriger, Faith Summersett Williams, Claire Waller, Sarah A Helseth, Sara J Becker

Characterizing the Design of and Emerging Evidence for Health Care Organization-Based Lung Cancer Screening Interventions: A Systematic Review

MDM Policy & Practice
April 25, 2025
Jennifer Elston Lafata, Katharine A Rendle, Jocelyn V Wainwright, Mary E Cooley, Anil Vachani, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Michelle R Odelberg, Liana Alcaro, Claire Staresinic, Gwen L Alexander, Rebecca B Carlson, Marilyn M Schapira

Natural Experiments to Inform Clinical Practice

NEJM Evidence
April 22, 2025
Atheendar S Venkataramani, Elizabeth F Bair

Encouraging Pharmacist Referrals for Evidence-Based Statin Initiation

JAMA Cardiology
March 26, 2025
Alexander C. Fanaroff, Qian Huang, Kayla Clark, Laurie A. Norton, Wendell E. Kellum, Dwight Eichelberger, John C. Wood, Zachary Bricker, Andrea G. Dooley Wood, Greta Kemmer, Jennifer I. Smith, Srinath Adusumalli, Mary E. Putt, Kevin G. Volpp

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