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View article: Free-Text Responses in a Nationally Representative Experimental Survey about End-of-Life Care Choices: ChatGPT-4o-Assisted Qualitative Analytical Study
Free-Text Responses in a Nationally Representative Experimental Survey about End-of-Life Care Choices: ChatGPT-4o-Assisted Qualitative Analytical Study Open
Background Little is known about how surrogates make end-of-life care choices for patients who lack the ability to make decisions for themselves. Objective The study aims (1) to identify key themes that emerged from participants’ free-text…
View article: Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance Open
We investigate the effects of female executives on gender-specific wage distributions and firm performance. Female leadership has a positive impact at the top of the female wage distribution and a negative impact at the bottom. The impact …
View article: Out‐group penalties in refugee assistance: a survey experiment
Out‐group penalties in refugee assistance: a survey experiment Open
We study out‐group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union immigration policies on these views, with a survey experiment including 4,087 Italian respondents. We assess attitudes using donations to a randomly a…
View article: Decentralized biobanking platform for organoid research networks
Decentralized biobanking platform for organoid research networks Open
Introduction Organoids are living, patient-derived tumor models that are revolutionizing precision medicine and drug development, however current privacy practices strip identifiers, thereby undermining ethics, efficiency, and effectivenes…
View article: Matching-Gift Incentives and Blood Donation: Linking Local and Global Altruism
Matching-Gift Incentives and Blood Donation: Linking Local and Global Altruism Open
View article: Decentralized Biobanking Pathway to Precision Medicine: Futures Study
Decentralized Biobanking Pathway to Precision Medicine: Futures Study Open
Background Biobank privacy policies remove identifiers from donated specimens, siloing patients, discounting multimodal data, and hindering precision medicine. Decentralized biobanking is a new paradigm that unlocks value by uniting patien…
View article: How perceptions of bone marrow donation costs affect donation behavior: survey evidence from a large donor registry
How perceptions of bone marrow donation costs affect donation behavior: survey evidence from a large donor registry Open
Over the past three decades, advancements in collection methods for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation substantially reduced invasiveness and safety concerns. To what extent, however, registered donors are informed about extraction me…
View article: Trust in AI-assisted health systems and AI’s trust in humans
Trust in AI-assisted health systems and AI’s trust in humans Open
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping healthcare, promising improved diagnostics, personalized treatments, and streamlined operations. Yet a lack of trust remains a persistent barrier to widespread adoption. This Perspective examines t…
View article: Decentralized Biobanking for the Future of Precision Medicine (Preprint)
Decentralized Biobanking for the Future of Precision Medicine (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Biobank privacy policies remove identifiers from donated specimens, siloing patients, discounting multi-modal data, and hindering precision medicine. Decentralized biobanking is a new paradigm that unlocks value by uniting pati…
View article: Decentralized Biobanking Apps for Patient Tracking of Biospecimen Research: Real-World Usability and Feasibility Study
Decentralized Biobanking Apps for Patient Tracking of Biospecimen Research: Real-World Usability and Feasibility Study Open
Background Biobank privacy policies strip patient identifiers from donated specimens, undermining transparency, utility, and value for patients, scientists, and society. We are advancing decentralized biobanking apps that reconnect patient…
View article: Nudging the nudger: Performance feedback and organ donor registrations
Nudging the nudger: Performance feedback and organ donor registrations Open
In a randomized controlled trial conducted in three waves over 2.5 years and involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) from a Canadian government service agency, we studied how providing CSRs with repeated performance fe…
View article: The Effect of Incentivizing Pro-Social Behavior is Context Dependent
The Effect of Incentivizing Pro-Social Behavior is Context Dependent Open
Standard economic theory would predict that offering financial incentives to complete an altruistic act should increase individuals' willingness to donate. However, the existing evidence on this effect is mixed. We conducted a laboratory e…
View article: Public Opinions on Removing Disincentives and Introducing Incentives for Organ Donation: Proposing a European Research Agenda
Public Opinions on Removing Disincentives and Introducing Incentives for Organ Donation: Proposing a European Research Agenda Open
The shortage of organs for transplantations is increasing in Europe as well as globally. Many initiatives to the organ shortage, such as opt-out systems for deceased donation and expanding living donation, have been insufficient to meet th…
View article: Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations
Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations Open
The new European Union (EU) ‘Regulation on standards of quality and safety for substances of human origin (SoHOs) intended for human application’ is based on a long-standing diffidence towards offering compensation to donors of SoHOs. We p…
View article: How do surrogates make treatment decisions for patients with dementia: An experimental survey study
How do surrogates make treatment decisions for patients with dementia: An experimental survey study Open
Despite the growing need for surrogate decision‐making for older adults, little is known about how surrogates make decisions and whether advance directives would change decision‐making. We conducted a nationally representative experimental…
View article: How Do Surrogates Make Treatment Decisions for Patients with Dementia? An Experimental Survey Study
How Do Surrogates Make Treatment Decisions for Patients with Dementia? An Experimental Survey Study Open
Despite the growing need for surrogate decision-making for older adults, little is known about how surrogates make decisions and whether advance directives would change decision-making.We conducted a nationally representative experimental …
View article: Out-group Penalties in Refugee Assistance: A Survey Experiment
Out-group Penalties in Refugee Assistance: A Survey Experiment Open
We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants.We assess attitudes using donations t…
View article: Privacy, Policy, and Profits: Survey of Patient Values and Preferences for Research on De-Identified Biosamples
Privacy, Policy, and Profits: Survey of Patient Values and Preferences for Research on De-Identified Biosamples Open
This study aims to identify the values of patients to inform policies and infrastructure for biobanking and precision medicine in the face of trade-offs between values. We surveyed breast cancer patients about conditions for receiving rese…
View article: Privacy, Policy, and Profits: Survey of Patient Values and Preferences for Research on De-Identified Biosamples
Privacy, Policy, and Profits: Survey of Patient Values and Preferences for Research on De-Identified Biosamples Open
This study aims to identify the values of patients to inform policies and infrastructure for biobanking and precision medicine in the face of trade-offs between values. We surveyed breast cancer patients about conditions for receiving rese…
View article: Trust and Health Care-Seeking Behavior
Trust and Health Care-Seeking Behavior Open
We present results from a nationally representative survey of American adults, guided by a simple theoretical model expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of …
View article: Out-Group Penalties in Refugee Assistance: A Survey Experiment
Out-Group Penalties in Refugee Assistance: A Survey Experiment Open
View article: Out-Group Penalties in Refugee Assistance: A Survey Experiment
Out-Group Penalties in Refugee Assistance: A Survey Experiment Open
View article: Out-Group Penalties in Refugee Assistance: A Survey Experiment
Out-Group Penalties in Refugee Assistance: A Survey Experiment Open
View article: Impact of a recognition package as an incentive to strengthen the motivation, performance, and retention of village health teams in Uganda: a study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
Impact of a recognition package as an incentive to strengthen the motivation, performance, and retention of village health teams in Uganda: a study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial Open
View article: Expectations, reference points, and compliance with COVID-19 social distancing measures
Expectations, reference points, and compliance with COVID-19 social distancing measures Open
We study the behavioral impact of announcements about the duration of a policy and their relationship with people's expectations in the context of the COVID-19 lockdowns. We surveyed representative samples of Italian residents at three mom…
View article: Impact of a recognition package as an incentive to strengthen the motivation, performance, and retention of village health teams in Uganda: A study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
Impact of a recognition package as an incentive to strengthen the motivation, performance, and retention of village health teams in Uganda: A study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial Open
Introduction: Uganda’s community health worker (CHW), or village health team (VHT), program faces significant challenges with poor retention and insufficient financial and program investment. Adequate compensation comprising of financial a…
View article: Nudging the Nudger: Performance Feedback and Organ Donor Registrations
Nudging the Nudger: Performance Feedback and Organ Donor Registrations Open
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affec…
View article: Treatment preferences among adults with normal cognition and cognitive impairment
Treatment preferences among adults with normal cognition and cognitive impairment Open
Background Although patient participation in treatment decisions is important for preference‐concordant care delivery, it is largely unknown how cognitive impairment influences treatment preferences. We investigated whether treatment prefe…
View article: Passing the Message: Peer Outreach about COVID-19 Precautions in Zambia
Passing the Message: Peer Outreach about COVID-19 Precautions in Zambia Open
We replicate the test of a theoretical framework put forward and tested by Goldberg et al. (2022) on financial incentives to send peers information about health behaviors.The study we replicate validated the theory in the context of tuberc…
View article: Financial Incentives, Not Behavioral Nudges, Led to Optimized HIV Testing among Pregnant Women in a High-Burden Urban Population in Ecuador
Financial Incentives, Not Behavioral Nudges, Led to Optimized HIV Testing among Pregnant Women in a High-Burden Urban Population in Ecuador Open
Behavioral economic principles are increasingly being used in the fight against HIV, including improving voluntary testing in sub-Saharan Africa and South America. However, behavioral nudges have not been widely tested as a strategy to opt…