Tara Knight, PhD

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Tara Knight is a program director for the USC Schaeffer Center. Her research interests include health-related quality of life, treatment adherence, and the use of behavioral economics to change patient and provider behavior.

Prior to joining the Schaeffer Center, she supported research projects in the USC School of Pharmacy's Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics. She received her PhD in educational psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Recent Work

A Randomized Trial Looking at Planning Prompts to Reduce Opioid Prescribing

The study confirmed the benefit of planning prompts, and repeat letter exposure among clinicians with poor patient outcomes.
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Clinician Job Satisfaction After Peer Comparison Feedback

A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial
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Cross-Sectional Study Examining Household Factors Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity in Low-Income Children in L.A.

Food insecure households with low head-of-household education, and at least one household member with type 2 diabetes, had the highest risk of SARS-CoV-2.
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Association of Fatal Overdose Notification Letters With Prescription of Benzodiazepines

New research builds on a landmark USC Schaeffer Center study aimed at reducing opioid overprescribing.
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The Protocol of Improving Safe Antibiotic Prescribing in Telehealth: A Randomized Trial

o better understand how best to decrease inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for ARIs in telehealth, we are conducting a large randomized quality improvement trial testing both patient- and physician-facing feedback and behavioral nudges embedded in the electronic health record.
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Recent Work

A Randomized Trial Looking at Planning Prompts to Reduce Opioid Prescribing

Clinician Job Satisfaction After Peer Comparison Feedback

Cross-Sectional Study Examining Household Factors Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity in Low-Income Children in L.A.

Association of Fatal Overdose Notification Letters With Prescription of Benzodiazepines

The Protocol of Improving Safe Antibiotic Prescribing in Telehealth: A Randomized Trial