Using active choice within the electronic health record to increase physician ordering and patient completion of high-value cancer screening tests

Healthcare

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 340-345

  Patel, Mitesh S ^a,b,c,d   Volpp, Kevin G ^a,b,c,d   Small, Dylan S ^b   Wynn, Craig ^a   Zhu, Jingsan ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Honeywell, Steven ^a   Day, Susan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active choice; Behavioral economics; Cancer screening; Choice architecture; Colonoscopy; Electronic health record; Mammography; Physician behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS';

EID: 84966650502     PISSN: 22130764     EISSN: 22130772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2016.04.005     Document Type: Article

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