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List of works by Kevin G. Volpp

A Pilot Randomized Trial of Financial Incentives or Coaching to Lower Serum Phosphorus in Dialysis Patients

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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Employer Matching of Employees' Monetary Contributions to Deposit Contracts to Promote Weight Loss

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A Randomized Trial of Social Comparison Feedback and Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity.

scientific article published on 15 July 2016

A Synchronized Prescription Refill Program Improved Medication Adherence

scientific article published on August 2016

A delicate balance: physician work hours, patient safety, and organizational efficiency

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A longitudinal analysis of the impact of hospital service line profitability on the likelihood of readmission

scientific article published on 30 March 2012

A mixed-methods randomized controlled trial of financial incentives and peer networks to promote walking among older adults

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A nudge toward participation: Improving clinical trial enrollment with behavioral economics.

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A qualitative evaluation of patient-perceived benefits and barriers to participation in a telephone care management program

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

A randomized controlled trial of financial incentives for smoking cessation

scientific article published on January 2006

A randomized trial of a three-hour protected nap period in a medicine training program: sleep, alertness, and patient outcomes

scientific article published in March 2014

A randomized trial of lottery-based incentives and reminders to improve warfarin adherence: the Warfarin Incentives (WIN2) Trial

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A randomized, controlled trial of financial incentives for smoking cessation

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A test of financial incentives to improve warfarin adherence

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Anticipated consequences of the 2011 duty hours standards: views of internal medicine and surgery program directors

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Application of the RE-AIM framework to evaluate the impact of a worksite-based financial incentive intervention for smoking cessation

scientific article published in May 2012

Are the healthy behaviors of US high-deductible health plan enrollees driven by people who chose these plans? Smoking as a case study

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Assessing the effects of the 2003 resident duty hours reform on internal medicine board scores

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Assessing value in health care programs

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Association between participation in a multipayer medical home intervention and changes in quality, utilization, and costs of care.

scientific article published on February 2014

Association of the 2011 ACGME resident duty hour reforms with mortality and readmissions among hospitalized Medicare patients

scientific article published on December 2014

Asymmetric paternalism to improve health behaviors

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Automated Reminders and Physician Notification to Promote Immunosuppression Adherence Among Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Randomized Trial

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Automated hovering in health care--watching over the 5000 hours

scientific article published on 20 June 2012

Behavioral economics holds potential to deliver better results for patients, insurers, and employers

scientific article published on July 2013

Building physician work hour regulations from first principles and best evidence

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Can behavioural economics make us healthier?

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Characterizing Tweet Volume and Content About Common Health Conditions Across Pennsylvania: Retrospective Analysis

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Choosing wisely: low-value services, utilization, and patient cost sharing

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Commitment contracts as a way to health

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Commitment devices to improve unhealthy behaviors--reply

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Commitment devices: using initiatives to change behavior

scientific article published in May 2014

Comparative effectiveness--thinking beyond medication A versus medication B

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Comparing the effectiveness of individualistic, altruistic, and competitive incentives in motivating completion of mental exercises

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

Comparing the standard rating scale and the magnifier scale for assessing risk perceptions

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Conflicts and compromises in not hiring smokers

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Consequences of Influencing Physician Behavior--Reply

scientific article published in June 2016

Consumers' misunderstanding of health insurance

scientific article published on 26 June 2013

Default Options In Advance Directives Influence How Patients Set Goals For End-Of-Life Care ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2013

Default options in advance directives: study protocol for a randomised clinical trial

scientific article published on 06 June 2016

Designing a model health care system

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Did duty hour reform lead to better outcomes among the highest risk patients?

scientific article published on 20 May 2009

Did postoperative mortality increase after the implementation of the Medicare Balanced Budget Act?

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Did recent changes in Medicare reimbursement hit teaching hospitals harder?

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Does admission to a teaching hospital affect acute myocardial infarction survival?

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Effect of Financial Incentives to Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

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Effect of cuts in Medicare reimbursement on process and outcome of care for acute myocardial infarction patients

scientific article published on 03 October 2005

Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit mortality in United States teaching hospitals

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Effectiveness of financial incentives for longer-term smoking cessation: evidence of absence or absence of evidence?

scientific article published on March 2012

Effects of a Medical Home and Shared Savings Intervention on Quality and Utilization of Care.

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Effects of resident duty hour reform on surgical and procedural patient safety indicators among hospitalized Veterans Health Administration and Medicare patients

scientific article published on July 2009

Electronic devices and applications to track physical activity--reply

scientific article published in May 2015

Empirical observations on longer-term use of incentives for weight loss ⬇️

scientific article published on February 8, 2012

Enhancing the effectiveness of food labeling in restaurants

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Financial Incentives and Cholesterol Levels--Reply

scientific article published in April 2016

Financial incentive-based approaches for weight loss: a randomized trial

scientific article published on December 2008

Financial incentives for extended weight loss: a randomized, controlled trial

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Financial incentives for home-based health monitoring: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 13 February 2014

Framing Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity Among Overweight and Obese Adults.

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Framing Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity Among Overweight and Obese Adults: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Generic Medication Prescription Rates After Health System-Wide Redesign of Default Options Within the Electronic Health Record.

scientific article published on 9 May 2016

Habit formation in children: Evidence from incentives for healthy eating

scientific article published on 3 December 2015

Harnessing the Right Combination of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation to Change Physician Behavior

scientific article published in December 2015

Heart attack risk perception biases among hypertension patients: the role of educational level and worry

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Heterogeneity in the Effects of Reward- and Deposit-based Financial Incentives on Smoking Cessation.

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

Holding the Hunger Games Hostage at the Gym: An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling

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Hospital coronary artery bypass graft surgery volume and patient mortality, 1998-2000.

scientific article published in January 2004

Hospital percutaneous coronary intervention volume and patient mortality, 1998 to 2000: does the evidence support current procedure volume minimums?

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Hospital teaching intensity, patient race, and surgical outcomes

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Impact of a prescription copayment increase on lipid-lowering medication adherence in veterans.

scientific article published on 12 January 2009

Incentives in health: different prescriptions for physicians and patients

scientific article published on April 2012

Individual Versus Team-Based Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Individual- versus group-based financial incentives for weight loss: a randomized, controlled trial

scientific article published on April 2013

Informative inducement: study payment as a signal of risk

scientific article published on 18 November 2009

Innovating in health delivery: The Penn medicine innovation tournament

scientific article published on 13 May 2013

Internal medicine and general surgery residents' attitudes about the ACGME duty hours regulations: a multicenter study.

scientific article published on December 2006

Internal medicine trainees' views of training adequacy and duty hours restrictions in 2009.

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Is lower 30-day mortality posthospital admission among blacks unique to the Veterans Affairs health care system?

scientific article published in November 2007

Is thirty-day hospital mortality really lower for black veterans compared with white veterans?

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Learning by Listening-Improving Health Care in the Era of Yelp

scientific article published in December 2016

Leveraging insights from behavioral economics to increase the value of health-care service provision

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Limits of readmission rates in measuring hospital quality suggest the need for added metrics

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Lottery-based versus fixed incentives to increase clinicians' response to surveys

scientific article published on 14 April 2011

Make the healthy choice the easy choice: using behavioral economics to advance a culture of health.

scientific article published in November 2016

Making the RCT more useful for innovation with evidence-based evolutionary testing.

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

Market reform in New Jersey and the effect on mortality from acute myocardial infarction

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Medicaid incentive programs to encourage healthy behavior show mixed results to date and should be studied and improved

scientific article published on March 2013

Medication Adherence: The Authors Reply

scientific article published on 01 November 2016

Mortality among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries in the first 2 years following ACGME resident duty hour reform

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Mortality among patients in VA hospitals in the first 2 years following ACGME resident duty hour reform

scientific article (publication date: 5 September 2007)

Myths and realities surrounding health reform

scientific article published on 01 May 1994

Nudging students toward healthier food choices--applying insights from behavioral economics

scientific article published in May 2015

Nurse staffing ratios: trends and policy implications for hospitalists and the safety net.

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Patient and Partner Feedback Reports to Improve Statin Medication Adherence: A Randomized Control Trial.

scientific article published on 09 September 2016

Patient opinions regarding 'pay for performance for patients'.

scientific article published on 29 July 2008

Patients as mercenaries?: the ethics of using financial incentives in the war on unhealthy behaviors

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Physician attitudes toward participating in a financial incentive program for LDL reduction are associated with patient outcomes

scientific article published on 5 December 2016

Preference-adaptive randomization in comparative effectiveness studies

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Premium-Based Financial Incentives Did Not Promote Workplace Weight Loss In A 2013-15 Study.

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Price Transparency: Not a Panacea for High Health Care Costs

scientific article published on May 2016

Prolonged hospital stay and the resident duty hour rules of 2003

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Randomised controlled trial of alternative messages to increase enrolment in a healthy food programme among individuals with diabetes

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Randomized trial of four financial-incentive programs for smoking cessation

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Randomized trial of lottery-based incentives to improve warfarin adherence

scientific article published on August 2012

Rationale and design of a randomized trial of automated hovering for post-myocardial infarction patients: The HeartStrong program.

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Redesigning employee health incentives--lessons from behavioral economics

scientific article published on August 2011

Regionalization of care for acute coronary syndromes: more evidence is needed

scientific article published on March 2005

Replacing the Affordable Care Act: Lessons From Behavioral Economics.

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

Residents' suggestions for reducing errors in teaching hospitals

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Reward-based incentives for smoking cessation: how a carrot became a stick

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Short- and long-term mortality after an acute illness for elderly whites and blacks

scientific article published on 17 March 2008

Sleep and Alertness in Medical Interns and Residents: An Observational Study on the Role of Extended Shifts

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Smoking, obesity, health insurance, and health incentives in the Affordable Care Act.

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Stages of change and patient activation measure scores in the context of incentive-based health interventions.

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Statistical issues in pragmatic trials of behavioral economic interventions.

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Teaching hospital financial status and patient outcomes following ACGME duty hour reform

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Teaching hospital five-year mortality trends in the wake of duty hour reforms

scientific article published on August 2013

The ACGME’s 2011 Changes to Resident Duty Hours: Are They an Unfunded Mandate on Teaching Hospitals? ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

The Counseling African Americans to Control Hypertension study and ways to enhance the next wave of behavioral interventions

scientific article published on 21 March 2014

The Hospital Compare mortality model and the volume-outcome relationship

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The Promise of Tailoring Incentives for Healthy Behaviors

scientific article published in January 2016

The design and conduct of Keep It Off: An online randomized trial of financial incentives for weight-loss maintenance

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

The effect of market reform on racial differences in hospital mortality.

scientific article published on November 2006

The effects of price competition and reduced subsidies for uncompensated care on hospital mortality

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The impact of alternative incentive schemes on completion of health risk assessments

scientific article published in January 2012

The impact of price discounts and calorie messaging on beverage consumption: a multi-site field study

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The impact of resident duty hour reform on hospital readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries

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The importance of clinical severity in the measurement of hospital readmission rates for Medicare beneficiaries, 1997-2007.

scientific article published on 22 July 2013

The law, policy, and ethics of employers' use of financial incentives to improve health

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The role of behavioral economic incentive design and demographic characteristics in financial incentive-based approaches to changing health behaviors: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on May 2015

Time to selected quit date and subsequent rates of sustained smoking abstinence

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

To leave or to lie? Are concerns about a shift-work mentality and eroding professionalism as a result of duty-hour rules justified?

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Transforming Mental Health Delivery Through Behavioral Economics and Implementation Science: Protocol for Three Exploratory Projects

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Translating the hemoglobin A1C with more easily understood feedback: a randomized controlled trial

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Turning readmission reduction policies into results: some lessons from a multistate initiative to reduce readmissions.

scientific article published on 25 February 2013

Two Randomized Controlled Pilot Trials of Social Forces to Improve Statin Adherence among Patients with Diabetes

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Use of wearable monitoring devices to change health behavior--reply.

scientific article published in May 2015

Using Active Choice Within the Electronic Health Record to Increase Influenza Vaccination Rates

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care.

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

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Using default options within the electronic health record to increase the prescribing of generic-equivalent medications: a quasi-experimental study

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Using reporting requirements to improve employer wellness incentives and their regulation

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Volume-based referral for cardiovascular procedures in the United States: a cross-sectional regression analysis

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Wearable devices as facilitators, not drivers, of health behavior change

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Web-Based Access to Positive Airway Pressure Usage with or without an Initial Financial Incentive Improves Treatment Use in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

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What Business Are We In? The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care ⬇️

scientific article published on August 30, 2012

What role do lay beliefs about hypertension etiology play in perceptions of medication effectiveness?

scientific article published in May 2008

Why are financial incentives not effective at influencing some smokers to quit? Results of a process evaluation of a worksite trial assessing the efficacy of financial incentives for smoking cessation

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Will mandated minimum nurse staffing ratios lead to better patient outcomes?

scientific article published in June 2008

Working on the health of families: where children fit in worksite health promotion efforts

scientific article published on 21 March 2013

Workplace wellness recognition for optimizing workplace health: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association

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