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"Cure" Versus "Clinical Remission": The Impact of a Medication Description on the Willingness of People Living with HIV to Take a Medication

scientific article published on 04 January 2020

"If I'm better than average, then I'm ok?": Comparative information influences beliefs about risk and benefits

scientific article

"What should I do, doc?": Some psychologic benefits of physician recommendations

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

'How many calories are in my burrito?' Improving consumers' understanding of energy (calorie) range information.

scientific article published on 24 April 2014

'I'll do what they did": social norm information and cancer treatment decisions

scientific article

A Mixed-Methods Investigation of the Motivations, Goals, and Aspirations of Male and Female Academic Medical Faculty

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

A demonstration of ''less can be more'' in risk graphics

scientific article published on 7 April 2010

A gift of life: ethical and practical problems with conditional and directed donation

scientific article published on June 2008

A matter of perspective: choosing for others differs from choosing for yourself in making treatment decisions

scientific article published in June 2006

AJOB Empirical Bioethics: A Home for Empirical Bioethics Scholarship

scholarly article by Chris Feudtner et al published January 2014 in AJOB empirical bioethics

Abandoning the language of "response shift": a plea for conceptual clarity in distinguishing scale recalibration from true changes in quality of life

scientific article published on 29 January 2010

Abstract 155: do unclothed images affect decision making in a conjoint analysis?

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Afterword: Giving good advice: it is not what doctors say, but how they say it

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Agency is messy: get used to it.

scientific article published in January 2014

Alternate methods of framing information about medication side effects: incremental risk versus total risk of occurrence

scientific article published in March 2008

Altruism, incentives, and organ donation: attitudes of the transplant community

scientific article published in April 2004

American Society of Clinical Oncology guidance statement: the cost of cancer care

scientific article

Anxiety symptoms prior to a prostate cancer diagnosis: Associations with knowledge and openness to treatment

scientific article published on 24 November 2016

Are subjective well-being measures any better than decision utility measures?

scientific article published on January 2008

Are they really that happy? Exploring scale recalibration in estimates of well-being

scientific article

Assessing the economic challenges posed by orphan drugs

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Autonomy: What's Shared Decision Making Have to Do With It?

scientific article

Batting 300 is good: perspectives of faculty researchers and their mentors on rejection, resilience, and persistence in academic medical careers

scientific article published on April 2013

Behavioral Economic Insights for Pediatric Obesity: Suggestions for Translating the Guidelines for Our Patients

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Behavioral Equipoise: A Way to Resolve Ethical Stalemates in Clinical Research

journal article; published in The American Journal of Bioethics in 2011

Belief in numbers: When and why women disbelieve tailored breast cancer risk statistics

scientific article

Better off not knowing: improving clinical care by limiting physician access to unsolicited diagnostic information

scientific article

Beyond Nudges - When Improving Health Calls for Greater Assertiveness

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Beyond costs and benefits: understanding how patients make health care decisions

scientific article published in January 2010

Beyond utilitarianism: a method for analyzing competing ethical principles in a decision analysis of liver transplantation

scientific article published on 25 August 2008

Breast cancer anxiety's associations with responses to a chemoprevention decision aid

scientific article

Can Appealing to Patient Altruism Reduce Overuse of Health Care Services? An Experimental Survey

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Cancer therapy costs influence treatment: a national survey of oncologists

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Caregiving behavior is associated with decreased mortality risk.

scientific article

Changing times, changing opinions: history informing the family presence debate

scientific article published in October 2005

Communicating side effect risks in a tamoxifen prophylaxis decision aid: the debiasing influence of pictographs

scientific article

Communication challenges for nongeneticist physicians relaying clinical genomic results

scientific article published in September 2016

Compared to what? A joint evaluation method for assessing quality of life ⬇️

scientific article published on 04 February 2011

Confessions of a bedside rationer: commentary on Hurst and Danis

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Considering adaptation in preference elicitations

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Continental Divide? The attitudes of US and Canadian oncologists on the costs, cost-effectiveness, and health policies associated with new cancer drugs

scientific article published on 9 August 2010

Contracts with patients in clinical practice

scientific article published on 14 April 2011

Controversy undermines support for state mandates on the human papillomavirus vaccine

scientific article

Copay Assistance for Expensive Drugs: A Helping Hand That Raises Costs

scientific article

Cost and Clinical Practice Guidelines: Can Two Wrongs Make It Right? ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2004

Cost-related health literacy: a key component of high-quality cancer care

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Creating value in health by understanding and overcoming resistance to de-innovation.

scientific article published on February 2015

Cure Me Even If It Kills Me: Preferences for Invasive Cancer Treatment

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Deficits and variations in patients' experience with making 9 common medical decisions: the DECISIONS survey

scientific article published in September 2010

Differences in Mentor-Mentee Sponsorship in Male vs Female Recipients of National Institutes of Health Grants.

scientific article

Disability and sunshine: can hedonic predictions be improved by drawing attention to focusing illusions or emotional adaptation?

scientific article published in June 2005

Discussing Health Care Expenses in the Oncology Clinic: Analysis of Cost Conversations in Outpatient Encounters

scientific article

Discussing Out-of-Pocket Expenses During Clinical Appointments: An Observational Study of Patient-Psychiatrist Interactions

scientific article

Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients' satisfaction?

scientific article

Does a helping hand mean a heavy heart? Helping behavior and well-being among spouse caregivers.

scientific article

Does comparative effectiveness research promote rationing of cancer care?

scientific article

Does competition for transplantable hearts encourage 'gaming' of the waiting list?

scientific article

Does labeling prenatal screening test results as negative or positive affect a woman's responses?

scientific article

Don't ask, don't tell: a change in medical student attitudes after obstetrics/gynecology clerkships toward seeking consent for pelvic examinations on an anesthetized patient

scientific article published in February 2003

Effect of Assessment Method on the Discrepancy between Judgments of Health Disorders People have and do not have: A Web Study

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Effect of esthetic outcome after breast-conserving surgery on psychosocial functioning and quality of life

scientific article published in July 2008

Effect of framing as gain versus loss on understanding and hypothetical treatment choices: survival and mortality curves

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Effect of physician disclosure of specialty bias on patient trust and treatment choice

scientific article

Effectiveness of rheumatoid hand surgery: contrasting perceptions of hand surgeons and rheumatologists

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Emotions, decisions, and the limits of rationality: symposium introduction.

scientific article published on January 2005

Empowerment Failure: How Shortcomings in Physician Communication Unwittingly Undermine Patient Autonomy.

scientific article published in November 2017

Engaging Beneficiaries In Medicaid Programs That Incentivize Health-Promoting Behaviors

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Estimating Neurologic Prognosis in Children: High Stakes, Poor Data

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Exploring the role of order effects in person trade-off elicitations

scientific article

Eye-tracking evidence shows that non-fit messaging impacts attention, attitudes and choice

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Factors Associated With Success of Clinician-Researchers Receiving Career Development Awards From the National Institutes of Health: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Failure to discount for conflict of interest when evaluating medical literature: a randomised trial of physicians

scientific article published in May 2010

Fear of litigation may increase resuscitation of infants born near the limits of viability

scientific article published in June 2002

Finding Health Care Prices Online-How Difficult Is It to Be an Informed Healthcare Consumer?

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Frequency, nature, effects, and correlates of conflicts of interest in published clinical cancer research

Full disclosure--out-of-pocket costs as side effects

scientific article published in October 2013

Gender differences in resources and negotiation among highly motivated physician-scientists

scientific article

Gender differences in salary in a recent cohort of early-career physician-researchers

scientific article

Gender differences in the salaries of physician researchers

scientific article

Gender differences in time spent on parenting and domestic responsibilities by high-achieving young physician-researchers

scientific article

Gunmen and Ice Cream Cones: Harm to Autonomy and Harm to Persons

journal article; published in The American Journal of Bioethics in 2016

HIV Cure Research: Risks Patients Expressed Willingness to Accept

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Happily hopeless: adaptation to a permanent, but not to a temporary, disability

scientific article

Harnessing the Power of Default Options to Improve Health Care

article

Health numeracy: the importance of domain in assessing numeracy

scientific article

Health, wealth, and happiness: financial resources buffer subjective well-being after the onset of a disability

scientific article published in September 2005

Healthcare.gov 3.0--behavioral economics and insurance exchanges

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Helping patients decide: ten steps to better risk communication

scientific article published on 19 September 2011

How Hospital Stays Resemble Enhanced Interrogation

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

How Primary Care Providers Talk to Patients about Genome Sequencing Results: Risk, Rationale, and Recommendation

scientific article published on 26 January 2018

How bad is depression? Preference score estimates from depressed patients and the general population

scientific article published on 21 April 2009

How behavioral economics can help to avoid 'The last mile problem' in whole genome sequencing

scientific article

How long and how well: oncologists' attitudes toward the relative value of life-prolonging v. quality of life-enhancing treatments

scientific article

How making a risk estimate can change the feel of that risk: shifting attitudes toward breast cancer risk in a general public survey

scientific article published in June 2005

Ignorance of hedonic adaptation to hemodialysis: a study using ecological momentary assessment

scientific article published in February 2005

Images of Illness: How Causal Claims and Racial Associations Influence Public Preferences toward Diabetes Research Spending ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

Imagining life with an ostomy: Does a video intervention improve quality-of-life predictions for a medical condition that may elicit disgust? ⬇️

scientific article published on November 22, 2012

Impact of the model for end-stage liver disease allocation policy on the use of high-risk organs for liver transplantation

scientific article published on November 2008

Improving understanding of adjuvant therapy options by using simpler risk graphics

scientific article published on December 2008

In A Survey, Marked Inconsistency In How Oncologists Judged Value Of High-Cost Cancer Drugs In Relation To Gains In Survival ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

In Defense of "Denial": Difficulty Knowing When Beliefs Are Unrealistic and Whether Unrealistic Beliefs Are Bad

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

In Defense of Nudging When the Stakes Are High

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

In a mailed physician survey, questionnaire length had a threshold effect on response rate

scientific article published in January 2005

Incremental and Average Cost-Effectiveness Ratios: Will Physicians Make a Distinction?

article

Individualized survival curves improve satisfaction with cancer risk management decisions in women with BRCA1/2 mutations

scientific article published in December 2005

Informed Decision Making: Assessment of the Quality of Physician Communication about Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Informed choice about breast cancer prevention: randomized controlled trial of an online decision aid intervention

scientific article published on January 2013

Interest in BRCA1/2 testing in a primary care population

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Is information always a good thing? Helping patients make "good" decisions

scientific article published on September 2002

Lying to Insurance Companies: The Desire to Deceive among Physicians and the Public

journal article; published in The American Journal of Bioethics in 2004

Making numbers matter: present and future research in risk communication

scientific article

Measuring numeracy without a math test: development of the Subjective Numeracy Scale

scientific article

Medicaid and CHIP Child Health Beneficiary Incentives: Program Landscape and Stakeholder Insights

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Medical Facts versus Value Judgments--Toward Preference-Sensitive Guidelines

scientific article published on 01 June 2015

Medical student name tags ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

Mentor networks in academic medicine: moving beyond a dyadic conception of mentoring for junior faculty researchers

scientific article

Mentoring and the career satisfaction of male and female academic medical faculty

scientific article

Misimagining the unimaginable: The disability paradox and health care decision making

scientific article (publication date: 2005)

Misperceptions about beta-blockers and diuretics: a national survey of primary care physicians

scientific article

Mispredicting and misremembering: patients with renal failure overestimate improvements in quality of life after a kidney transplant

scientific article published on September 2008

Mispredictions and misrecollections: challenges for subjective outcome measurement

scientific article published on January 2008

Misremembering colostomies? Former patients give lower utility ratings than do current patients

scientific article published in November 2006

Mortality versus survival graphs: Improving temporal consistency in perceptions of treatment effectiveness

scientific article published on 29 November 2006

Narratives that address affective forecasting errors reduce perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening

scientific article

Negotiation in academic medicine: narratives of faculty researchers and their mentors

scientific article published on April 2013

Neurodevelopmental Risk: A Tool to Enhance Conversations With Families of Infants

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Neurologic Outcome After Prematurity: Perspectives of Parents and Clinicians

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

New strategies for aligning physicians with health system incentives

scientific article published in September 2016

No question too small: development of a question prompt list for parents of critically ill infants

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Nudging the obese: a UK-US consideration

scientific article published on 23 April 2014

Outside the operating room--economic, regulatory, and legal challenges: a collection of perspectives and panel discussion.

scientific article published in November 2008

Overcoming barriers to discussing out-of-pocket costs with patients

scientific article published on June 2014

Partisan Vision Biases Determination of Voter Intent

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Patient comprehension of emergency department care and instructions: are patients aware of when they do not understand?

scientific article published on 10 July 2008

Patient understanding of medical jargon: a survey study of U.S. medical students.

scientific article published on 30 January 2014

Patient-oncologist cost communication, financial distress, and medication adherence.

scientific article published on May 2014

Patient-physician communication about early stage prostate cancer: analysis of overall visit structure

scientific article

Patient-physician discussions about costs: definitions and impact on cost conversation incidence estimates.

scientific article

Patterns of Work-Related Burnout in Physician-Scientists Receiving Career Development Awards From the National Institutes of Health

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Physician Recommendations Trump Patient Preferences in Prostate Cancer Treatment Decisions.

scientific article published on 10 August 2016

Physicians recommend different treatments for patients than they would choose for themselves

scientific article published on April 2011

Physicians' preferences for active-controlled versus placebo-controlled trials of new antihypertensive drugs

scientific article

Poor Consumer Comprehension and Plan Selection Inconsistencies Under the 2016 HealthCare.gov Choice Architecture.

scientific article published in January 2017

Potential problems with increasing serving sizes on the Nutrition Facts label.

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Promoting Population Health through Financial Stewardship

article

Provider experience and attitudes toward family presence during resuscitation procedures

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Pruning the regulatory tree

scientific article published in Nature

Public response to cost-quality tradeoffs in clinical decisions

scientific article

Racial differences in veterans' response to a standard vs. patient-centered decision aid for prostate cancer: Implications for decision making in African American and White men

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Racial/ethnic disparities in the treatment of localized/regional prostate cancer

scientific article

Randomized trial of 5 dollars versus 10 dollars monetary incentives, envelope size, and candy to increase physician response rates to mailed questionnaires

scientific article published in September 2002

Reducing the influence of anecdotal reasoning on people's health care decisions: is a picture worth a thousand statistics?

scientific article published in July 2005

Repeating an attending physician's unseemly remarks

scientific article published in September 2012

Responding to the immunoglobulin shortage: a case study

scientific article published on December 2002

Response to Open Peer Commentaries on ‘‘In Defense of ‘Denial’: Difficulty Knowing When Beliefs Are Unrealistic and Whether Unrealistic Beliefs Are Bad”

journal article; published in The American Journal of Bioethics in 2018

Results from a randomized trial of a web-based, tailored decision aid for women at high risk for breast cancer

scientific article published on 8 February 2013

Rethinking the objectives of decision aids: a call for conceptual clarity

scientific article published on 14 September 2007

Risk perception measures' associations with behavior intentions, affect, and cognition following colon cancer screening messages

scientific article

Risky feelings: why a 6% risk of cancer does not always feel like 6%

scientific article

Rule of rescue or the good of the many? An analysis of physicians' and nurses' preferences for allocating ICU beds

scientific article published on 7 June 2011

Science and Behavior ⬇️

journal article; published in The American Journal of Bioethics in 2011

Screening experiments and the use of fractional factorial designs in behavioral intervention research

scientific article published on 12 June 2008

Sensitivity to disgust, stigma, and adjustment to life with a colostomy

scientific article

Setting organ allocation priorities: should we care what the public cares about?

scientific article

Sex differences in attainment of independent funding by career development awardees

scientific article

Sex, role models, and specialty choices among graduates of US medical schools in 2006-2008.

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Experiences of Academic Medical Faculty

scientific article

Should Neonatologists Give Opinions Withdrawing Life-sustaining Treatment?

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Show Me My Health Plans: Using a Decision Aid to Improve Decisions in the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace

scientific article published in July 2016

Similarities and differences in the career trajectories of male and female career development award recipients

scientific article

Social responsibility, personal responsibility, and prognosis in public judgments about transplant allocation

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients

scientific article published in July 2002

Spiritual values in the setting of health care priorities

scientific article published on March 1, 2000

Study Of Physician And Patient Communication Identifies Missed Opportunities To Help Reduce Patients' Out-Of-Pocket Spending.

scientific article published in April 2016

Support for physician deception of insurance companies among a sample of Philadelphia residents

scientific article

Surgical decision making in the setting of severe traumatic brain injury: A survey of neurosurgeons

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Surgical management of the rheumatoid hand: consensus and controversy among rheumatologists and hand surgeons

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Testing whether decision aids introduce cognitive biases: results of a randomized trial

scientific article

The "Hassle Factor": what motivates physicians to manipulate reimbursement rules?

scientific article published in May 2002

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Cost-of-Care Conversations

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

The Accuracy of Predicting Parity as a Prerequisite for Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request

The Challenge of Measuring Community Values in Ways Appropriate for Setting Health Care Priorities

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

The Cost of Applying to Medical School - A Barrier to Diversifying the Profession

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

The Cost of Applying to Medical School. Reply

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The DECISIONS study: a nationwide survey of United States adults regarding 9 common medical decisions

scientific article published on 14 April 2010

The Impact of Cost Conversations on the Patient-Physician Relationship.

scientific article

The MedSeq Project: a randomized trial of integrating whole genome sequencing into clinical medicine

scientific article

The Physician Recommendation Coding System (PhyReCS): A Reliable and Valid Method to Quantify the Strength of Physician Recommendations During Clinical Encounters

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

The Predictable Irrationality of Righteous Minds, and the Work of Ethicists ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2013

The Roles Of Assisters And Automated Decision Support Tools In Consumers' Marketplace Choices: Room For Improvement

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

The Validity of Person Tradeoff Measurements: Randomized Trial of Computer Elicitation Versus Face-to-Face Interview

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The benefits of discussing adjuvant therapies one at a time instead of all at once

scientific article published on 14 October 2010

The black box of out-of-pocket cost communication. A path toward illumination

scientific article published in December 2014

The choice for breast cancer surgery: can women accurately predict postoperative quality of life and disease-related stigma?

scientific article

The costs of denying scarcity

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

The distinct role of comparative risk perceptions in a breast cancer prevention program

scientific article published on October 2011

The ethics of swimming pools

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

The experimental imperative.

scientific article published in March 2011

The hazards of correcting myths about health care reform

scientific article published in February 2013

The impact of considering adaptation in health state valuation

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The impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices

scientific article published on 27 August 2008

The importance of age in allocating health care resources: does intervention-type matter?

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The influence of cost-effectiveness information on physicians' cancer screening recommendations

scientific article published in April 2003

The polarizing effect of news media messages about the social determinants of health

scientific article

The role of perceived benefits and costs in patients' medical decisions

scientific article

The role of physicians' recommendations in medical treatment decisions

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

The role of professional societies in limiting indication creep

scientific article published on 05 August 2014

The use of life expectancy in cancer screening guidelines. Moving with caution from model-based evidence to evidence-based guidelines

scientific article published on June 2005

The utility of cost discussions between patients with cancer and oncologists

scientific article published on September 2015

Thoughts on Koch's Postulates ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2005

Too much experience: a desensitization bias in emotional perspective taking

scientific article published on February 2014

Tough questions, even harder answers

scientific article published on November 2006

Trading people versus trading time: what is the difference?

scientific article

Transplantation traffic--geography as destiny for transplant candidates

scientific article

Treatment Availability Influences Physicians' Portrayal of Robotic Surgery During Clinical Appointments

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Truth be told: not all nudging is bullshit

Under-representation of women in high-impact published clinical cancer research

scientific article published in July 2009

Understanding and Utilizing Patient Preferences in Cancer Treatment Decisions

scientific article published in May 2016

Up from crisis: overhauling healthcare information, payment, and delivery in extraordinary times. Dialogue with featured speakers from the 6th annual connected health symposium

scientific article published in September 2009

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

scientific article

Validation of the Subjective Numeracy Scale: effects of low numeracy on comprehension of risk communications and utility elicitations

scientific article published on 24 July 2007

Value Promotion in Health Care: The Importance of Symmetry

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

What Strategies Do Physicians and Patients Discuss to Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs? Analysis of Cost-Saving Strategies in 1,755 Outpatient Clinic Visits.

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

What is perfect health to an 85-year-old?: evidence for scale recalibration in subjective health ratings

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

What is the price of life and why doesn't it increase at the rate of inflation?

scientific article

What risk of death would people take to be cured of HIV and why? A survey of people living with HIV

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

What's Time Got to Do with It? Inattention to Duration in Interpretation of Survival Graphs

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

What's it worth? Public willingness to pay to avoid mental illnesses compared with general medical illnesses

scientific article

When do patients and their physicians agree on diabetes treatment goals and strategies, and what difference does it make?

scientific article

When money is saved by reducing healthcare costs, where do US primary care physicians think the money goes?

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Who decides? Living donor liver transplantation for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

scientific article published on November 2006

Whose quality of life? A commentary exploring discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general public ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Why It's Not Time for Health Care Rationing

scientific article published in March 2015

Why People Refuse to Make Tradeoffs in Person Tradeoff Elicitations: A Matter of Perspective?

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Why are you calling me? How study introductions change response patterns

scientific article

Why information alone is not enough: behavioral economics and the future of genomic medicine

scientific article

Why should changing the bathwater have to harm the baby?

scientific article published on 25 March 2010

Will running the numbers first violate the principles of patient-centered care?

Withdrawal of Life-Supporting Treatment in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Women's decisions regarding tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention: responses to a tailored decision aid.

scientific article published on February 2010

Women's interest in taking tamoxifen and raloxifene for breast cancer prevention: response to a tailored decision aid.

scientific article published on 26 March 2011

Work-life balance in academic medicine: narratives of physician-researchers and their mentors

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

“Is 28% Good or Bad?” Evaluability and Preference Reversals in Health Care Decisions

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