Recent Work
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Reverse Engineering Measures of Clinical Care Quality: Sequential Pattern Mining
In this study, the researchers hypothesized that, by using outcomes as a training signal, they could discover patterns of treatment that lead to better or worse than expected outcomes, and found that their framework improved the accuracy in survival analysis and facilitated discovery of patterns of care that improve outcomes.
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Use of Insurance against a Small Loss as an Incentive Strategy
This study explores whether the behavioral insight that people are highly averse to small chances of loss can be used to create a powerful incentive that has very low expected value, and finds that incentive design may benefit from utilizing an insurance paradigm.
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Evaluating the Feasibility and Utility of Translating Choosing Wisely Recommendations into e-Measures
The researchers found that improved capture of clinical information in electronic health records and greater specificity of clinical terminology are required to advance overuse concepts (45 low-value services that clinicians and patients should avoid) into standardized e-measures.
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Nudging Physician Prescription Decisions by Partitioning the Order Set: Results of a Vignette-Based Study
In this study of how menus in the electronic health record affect prescribing practices among primary care providers, the researchers found that provider treatment choice appears to be influenced by the grouping of menu options, suggesting that the layout of order sets is not an arbitrary exercise.
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Symptom Trends in the Last Year of Life From 1998 to 2010: A Cohort Study
This study found that, despite national efforts to improve end-of-life care, proxy reports of pain and other alarming symptoms in the last year of life increased from 1998 to 2010.
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