Jason Doctor, PhD

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Jason Doctor is a senior scholar at the USC Schaeffer Institute. He is the Norman Topping National Medical Enterprise Chair in Medicine at the USC Price School of Public Policy, where he is also Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs.

His research centers on decision-making in healthcare and health informatics. Doctor specializes in behavioral economics and the use of choice architecture to affect policy in health and medicine. In other research, he has studied computational approaches to detecting medical errors and has established methods for representing preferences and values for health.

Recent Work

How To Advance The Debate Over QALYs: A Response To Kaplan et al.

Jason Doctor and Darius Lakdawalla respond to a recent Health Affairs Forefront article by Robert Kaplan and colleagues and call for an alternative to QALYs, given issues with the underlying assumptions.

By Jason Doctor, PhD and Darius Lakdawalla, PhD
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Risk Preferences Over Health: Empirical Estimates and Implications for Medical Decision-Making

Individuals are risk-seeking at low levels of health and are most risk-averse at perfect health
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A Principled Approach to Non‑Discrimination in Cost‑Effectiveness

Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) offers a choice-consistent alternative that admits a premium for disease severity and avoids prohibited discrimination under well-defined conditions on utility and the effects of disability.
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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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Context Matters: Using an Evidence to Decision (EtD) Framework to Develop and Encourage Uptake of Opioid Deprescribing Guideline Recommendations at the Point-Of-Care

The context within which evidence-based recommendations are considered, as well the political and health-system environment, can contribute to the success of recommendation implementation.
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Recent Work

How To Advance The Debate Over QALYs: A Response To Kaplan et al.

Risk Preferences Over Health: Empirical Estimates and Implications for Medical Decision-Making

A Principled Approach to Non‑Discrimination in Cost‑Effectiveness

A Randomized Trial Looking at Planning Prompts to Reduce Opioid Prescribing

Context Matters: Using an Evidence to Decision (EtD) Framework to Develop and Encourage Uptake of Opioid Deprescribing Guideline Recommendations at the Point-Of-Care