Healthcare Decision-Making
Healthcare Decision-Making
Designing Safer and Smarter Healthcare
We develop tactics for encouraging safer prescribing practices and examine what motivates patients’ health and financial choices.
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Want Safer Prescribing? Provide Doctors With a Plan for Helping Patients in Pain
Letters notifying physicians of patient overdose deaths and providing a plan for managing future pain visits is an effective intervention, Schaeffer Center research found.
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Who Carries and Uses Naloxone in the U.S.?
Featured Experts: Mireille Jacobson
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The Wall Street Journal
The Open Payments database has had little effect on patient behavior, Kanter explains
Featured Experts: Genevieve P. Kanter
The Hill
A Simple Way to Reduce Overdose Deaths: Tell Doctors When Patients Die
Featured Experts: Jason Doctor, Mireille Jacobson
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Patients as well as providers must take responsibility in improving healthcare, but human fallibility can impede success. We foster supportive and effective ways to improve the decision-making of all parties for healthier results.
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