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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.

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

“Do not inject our babies”: a social listening analysis of public opinion about authorizing pediatric COVID-19 vaccines

Health Affairs Scholar
July 8, 2024
Aleksandra M Golos, Sharath-Chandra Guntuku, Alison M Buttenheim

Effect of gamification with a support partner to increase physical activity in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease: The STEP 4Life randomized clinical trial

Alzheimer's Association
July 4, 2024
S. Ryan Greysen, Ai Leen Oon, Kristin Harkins, Charles Rareshide, Angira Mondal, Mitesh S. Patel, Joshua D. Grill, Jason Karlawish

Effect of a Smartphone App (S-Check) on Actual and Intended Help-Seeking and Motivation to Change Methamphetamine Use Among Adult Consumers of Methamphetamine in Australia: Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial

JMIR
July 3, 2024
Krista J. Siefried, Florence Bascombe, Brendan Clifford, Zhixin Liu, Peter Middleton, Frances Kay-Lambkin, Jack Freestone, Daniel Herman, Michael Millard, Maureen Steele, Liam Acheson, Carl Moller, Nicky Bath, Nadine Ezard

Electronic Medical Record-Based Nudge Intervention to Increase Comprehensive Molecular Genotyping in Patients With Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Results From a Prospective Clinical Trial

ASCO
July 3, 2024
Melina E. Marmarelis, Dylan G. Scholes, Tara L. McWilliams, Wei-Ting Hwang, John Kosteva, Michael R. Costello, Lova Sun, Aditi P. Singh, Kelsey S. Lau-Min, Abigail Doucette, Peter E. Gabriel, Anthony O. Martella, Megan A. Roy, Jeffrey C. Thompson, Roger B. Cohen, David W. Dougherty, Lawrence N. Shulman, Corey J. Langer, Justin E. Bekelman, Erica L. Carpenter, Charu Aggarwal

Supporting Self-Management of Healthy Behaviors in Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension: The SMART-HABITS Pilot Randomized Trial

CJASN
July 2, 2024
Sarah J. Schrauben, Diane Park, Sandra Amaral, Adriana Purcell, Siqi Zhang, Matthew Kearney, Andrea Bilger, Harold I. Feldman, Laura M. Dember

Digital Interventions to Modify Skin Cancer Risk Behaviors in a National Sample of Young Adults: Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR
July 2, 2024
Carolyn J Heckman, Anna Mitarotondo, Yong Lin, Olga Khavjou, Mary Riley, Sharon L Manne, Amy L Yaroch, Zhaomeng Niu, Karen Glanz

Clinician- and Patient-Directed Communication Strategies for Patients With Cancer at High Mortality Risk: A Cluster Randomized Trial

JAMA Network
July 1, 2024
Samuel U. Takvorian, Peter Gabriel, E. Paul Wileyto, Daniel Blumenthal, Sharon Tejada, Alicia B. W. Clifton, David A. Asch, Alison M. Buttenheim, Katharine A. Rendle, Rachel C. Shelton, Krisda H. Chaiyachati, Oluwadamilola M. Fayanju, Susan Ware, Lynn M. Schuchter, Pallavi Kumar, Tasnim Salam, Adina Lieberman, Daniel Ragusano, Anna-Marika Bauer, Callie A. Scott, Lawrence N. Shulman, Robert Schnoll, Rinad S. Beidas, Justin E. Bekelman, Ravi B. Parikh

The COVID-19 Pandemic Led To A Large Decline In Physician Gross Revenue Across All Specialties In 2020

Health Affairs
July 1, 2024
Ravi B Parikh, Ezekiel J Emanuel, Yueming Zhao, David R Pagnotti, Pankti S Pathak, Stuart Hagen, David A Pizza, Amol S Navathe

Clinician- and Patient-Directed Communication Strategies for Patients With Cancer at High Mortality Risk

JAMA Network Open
July 1, 2024
Samuel U. Takvorian, MD, MSHP; Peter Gabriel, MD, MSE; E. Paul Wileyto, PhD; Daniel Blumenthal, BA; Sharon Tejada, MS; Alicia B. W. Clifton, MDP; David A. Asch, MD, MBA; Alison M. Buttenheim, PhD, MBA; Katharine A. Rendle, PhD, MSW, MPH; Rachel C. Shelton, ScD, MPH; Krisda H. Chaiyachati, MD, MPH, MSHP; Oluwadamilola M. Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS; Susan Ware, BS; Lynn M. Schuchter, MD; Pallavi Kumar, MD, MPH; Tasnim Salam, MBE, MPH; Adina Lieberman, MPH; Daniel Ragusano, MPH; Anna-Marika Bauer, MRA; Callie A. Scott, MSc; Lawrence N. Shulman, MD; Robert Schnoll, PhD; Rinad S. Beidas, PhD; Justin E. Bekelman, MD; Ravi B. Parikh, MD, MPP

University of Pennsylvania Telehealth Research Center of Excellence

JNCI Monographs
June 26, 2024
Jocelyn V Wainwright, Charu Aggarwal, Sarah Beucker, David W Dougherty, Peter E Gabriel, Linda A Jacobs, Jillian Kalman, Kristin A Linn, Anthony O Martella, Shivan J Mehta, Corinne M Rhodes, Megan Roy, Marilyn M Schapira, Lawrence N Shulman, Jennifer Steltz, Alisa J Stephens Shields, Andy S L Tan, Jeffrey C Thompson, Hannah Toneff, Richard C Wender, Sana Zeb, Katharine A Rendle, Anil Vachani, Justin E Bekelman; Penn TRACE

Megastudy shows that reminders boost vaccination but adding free rides does not

Nature
June 26, 2024
Katherine L. Milkman, Sean F. Ellis, Dena M. Gromet, Youngwoo Jung, Alex S. Luscher, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Madeline K. Paxson, Ramon A. Silvera Zumaran, Robert Kuan, Ron Berman, Neil A. Lewis Jr, John A. List, Mitesh S. Patel, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp, Maryann V. Beauvais, Jonathon K. Bellows, Cheryl A. Marandola & Angela L. Duckworth

Clinicians’ Use of Choice Framing in ICU Family Meetings

Critical Care Medicine
June 24, 2024
Joanna L Hart, Leena Malik, Carrie Li, Amy Summer, Lon Ogunduyile, Jay Steingrub, Bernard Lo, Julian Zlatev, Douglas B White

Psychosocial correlates of parents’ willingness to vaccinate their children against COVID-19

PLOS One
June 24, 2024
Hyunmin Yu, Stephen Bonett, Ufuoma Oyiborhoro, Subhash Aryal, Andrew Kim, Melanie L. Kornides, John B. Jemmott, Karen Glanz, Antonia M. Villarruel, José A. Bauermeister

Switching from cigarettes to IQOS: the relative importance of IQOS-associated reward, reinforcement and abstinence relief

Tobacco Control
June 13, 2024
Janet Audrain-McGovern, E Paul Wileyto, Olivia Klapec, Fodie Koita, Andrew A Strasser

Engaging Trusted Messengers to Increase COVID-19 Pediatric Vaccine Uptake in Philadelphia: Lessons from the VaxUpPhillyFamilies program

Science Direct
June 8, 2024
Sarah Badlis, Haolong Yu, Heather Klusaritz, Andy S L Tan, Teresa Dooley, Helaine Heggs, Sophia Collins, Gabriela Raczka, Naomi DeRoche-Brown, Rachel Feuerstein-Simon, José A Bauermeister, Antonia M Villarruel, Stephen Bonett, Karen Glanz, Terri Lipman