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P4P4P: an agenda for research on pay-for-performance for patients. Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 2.49

Peer mentoring and financial incentives to improve glucose control in African American veterans: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2012) 2.32

A test of financial incentives to improve warfarin adherence. BMC Health Serv Res (2008) 2.23

Financial incentives for extended weight loss: a randomized, controlled trial. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 2.07

A 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention to improve healthy food and beverage choices. Am J Public Health (2012) 1.86

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Substance abuse, adherence with antiretroviral therapy, and clinical outcomes among HIV-infected individuals. Life Sci (2010) 1.16

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Food choices of minority and low-income employees: a cafeteria intervention. Am J Prev Med (2012) 1.11

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Using implementation intentions prompts to enhance influenza vaccination rates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.08

Leveraging insights from behavioral economics to increase the value of health-care service provision. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 1.06

Beneficent persuasion: techniques and ethical guidelines to improve patients' decisions. Ann Fam Med (2010) 1.05

Individual Versus Team-Based Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. J Gen Intern Med (2016) 1.05

Default options in advance directives influence how patients set goals for end-of-life care. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 1.01

Association of cancer worry and perceived risk with doctor avoidance: an analysis of information avoidance in a nationally representative US sample. J Behav Med (2013) 0.98

Incentivizing HIV/STI testing: a systematic review of the literature. AIDS Behav (2014) 0.96

Examining educational attainment, prepregnancy smoking rate, and delay discounting as predictors of spontaneous quitting among pregnant smokers. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol (2014) 0.95

The recovery spectrum: from self-change to seeking treatment. Alcohol Res Health (2011) 0.94

Challenges and opportunities for developing and implementing incentives to improve health-related behaviors in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc (2010) 0.91

Improving health outcomes with better patient understanding and education. Risk Manag Healthc Policy (2010) 0.91

Two Randomized Controlled Pilot Trials of Social Forces to Improve Statin Adherence among Patients with Diabetes. J Gen Intern Med (2016) 0.91

A mixed-methods randomized controlled trial of financial incentives and peer networks to promote walking among older adults. Health Educ Behav (2014) 0.90

An account of collective actions in public health. Am J Public Health (2009) 0.89

Small, medium, large or supersize? The development and evaluation of interventions targeted at portion size. Int J Obes (Lond) (2014) 0.89

The Effects of Providing Fixed Compensation and Lottery-Based Rewards on Uptake of Medical Male Circumcision in Kenya: A Randomized Trial. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2016) 0.88

Comparative effectiveness of post-discharge interventions for hospitalized smokers: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2012) 0.86

Provider and patient directed financial incentives to improve care and outcomes for patients with diabetes. Curr Diab Rep (2013) 0.85

Use of Economic Compensation to Increase Demand for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Kenya: Qualitative Interviews With Male Participants in a Randomized Controlled Trial and Their Partners. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2016) 0.85

The 18-month impact of special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children food package revisions on diets of recipient families. Am J Prev Med (2014) 0.84

Reinforcing adherence to antihypertensive medications. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) (2014) 0.84

Some observations from behavioral economics for consideration in promoting money management among those with substance use disorders. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse (2012) 0.83

Grab a Cup, Fill It Up! An Intervention to Promote the Convenience of Drinking Water and Increase Student Water Consumption During School Lunch. Am J Public Health (2015) 0.82

Incentives to promote family planning. Prev Med (2012) 0.82

Behavioral Economics Matters for HIV Research: The Impact of Behavioral Biases on Adherence to Antiretrovirals (ARVs). AIDS Behav (2015) 0.81

Health behavior and behavioral economics: economic preferences and physical activity stages of change in a low-income African-American community. Am J Health Promot (2013) 0.81

Surveillance in Barrett's esophagus: lessons from behavioral economics. Gastroenterology (2009) 0.80

Impact of Cost Sharing on Therapeutic Substitution: The Story of Statins in 2006. J Am Heart Assoc (2016) 0.80

A Review of the Literature on Remote Monitoring Technology in Incentive-Based Interventions for Health-Related Behavior Change. Transl Issues Psychol Sci (2016) 0.80

Financial incentives for smoking cessation in low-income smokers: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2012) 0.79

Applying strategies from libertarian paternalism to decision making for prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening. BMC Cancer (2011) 0.79

Can a Free Wearable Activity Tracker Change Behavior? The Impact of Trackers on Adults in a Physician-Led Wellness Group. JMIR Res Protoc (2016) 0.77

Improving medicaid health incentives programs: lessons from substance abuse treatment research. Prev Med (2014) 0.76

Prescriber preferences for behavioural economics interventions to improve treatment of acute respiratory infections: a discrete choice experiment. BMJ Open (2016) 0.75

Depression, Anxiety and Symptoms of Stress among Baccalaureate Nursing Students in Hong Kong: A Cross-Sectional Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2016) 0.75

A mixed methods approach to improving recruitment and engagement of emerging adults in behavioural weight loss programs. Obes Sci Pract (2016) 0.75

The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviour. Econ J (London) (2016) 0.75

Mobile phone-delivered reminders and incentives to improve childhood immunisation coverage and timeliness in Kenya (M-SIMU): a cluster randomised controlled trial. Lancet Glob Health (2017) 0.75

Time Preferences Predict Mortality among HIV-Infected Adults Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in Kenya. PLoS One (2015) 0.75

Effects of Incentive-Based Smoking Cessation Program for Pregnant Women on Birth Outcomes. Matern Child Health J (2017) 0.75

Employee Use of a Wireless Physical Activity Tracker Within Two Incentive Designs at One Company. Popul Health Manag (2015) 0.75

New Year's res-illusions: food shopping in the new year competes with healthy intentions. PLoS One (2014) 0.75

Can purchasing information be used to predict adherence to cardiovascular medications? An analysis of linked retail pharmacy and insurance claims data. BMJ Open (2016) 0.75

Helping patients make better decisions: how to apply behavioral economics in clinical practice. Patient Prefer Adherence (2014) 0.75

"Nudge" in the clinical consultation--an acceptable form of medical paternalism? BMC Med Ethics (2014) 0.75

The effect of financial incentives on top of behavioral support on quit rates in tobacco smoking employees: study protocol of a cluster-randomized trial. BMC Public Health (2016) 0.75

Social norms and financial incentives to promote employees' healthy food choices: A randomized controlled trial. Prev Med (2016) 0.75

Label, nudge or tax? A review of health policies for risky behaviours. J Public Health Res (2012) 0.75

Point-Counterpoint: Reflex Cultures Reduce Laboratory Workload and Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship in Patients Suspected of Having Urinary Tract Infections. J Clin Microbiol (2015) 0.75

Default options in advance directives: study protocol for a randomised clinical trial. BMJ Open (2016) 0.75

Examination of a recommended algorithm for eliminating nonsystematic delay discounting response sets. Drug Alcohol Depend (2015) 0.75

Association Between Monetary Deposits and Weight Loss in Online Commitment Contracts. Am J Health Promot (2016) 0.75

Impact of a patient incentive program on receipt of preventive care. Am J Manag Care (2014) 0.75

Financial Incentives for Adherence to Hepatitis C Virus Clinical Care and Treatment: A Randomized Trial of Two Strategies. Open Forum Infect Dis (2017) 0.75

It helps me live, sends my children to school, and feeds me: a qualitative study of how food and cash incentives may improve adherence to treatment and care among adults living with HIV in Tanzania. AIDS Care (2017) 0.75

A Scoping Review of Behavioral Economic Interventions for Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Curr Diab Rep (2017) 0.75

Full coverage for preventive medications after myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med (2011) 4.51

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Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care. Med Care (2007) 3.16

Individual- versus group-based financial incentives for weight loss: a randomized, controlled trial. Ann Intern Med (2013) 2.59

Randomized trial of four financial-incentive programs for smoking cessation. N Engl J Med (2015) 2.39

Effects of resident duty hour reform on surgical and procedural patient safety indicators among hospitalized Veterans Health Administration and Medicare patients. Med Care (2009) 2.35

Peer mentoring and financial incentives to improve glucose control in African American veterans: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2012) 2.32

Financial incentives for extended weight loss: a randomized, controlled trial. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 2.07

Impact of a prescription copayment increase on lipid-lowering medication adherence in veterans. Circulation (2009) 2.06

Framing Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity Among Overweight and Obese Adults: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. Ann Intern Med (2016) 1.96

The impact of alternative incentive schemes on completion of health risk assessments. Am J Health Promot (2012) 1.86

Abusive prescribing of controlled substances--a pharmacy view. N Engl J Med (2013) 1.84

Automated hovering in health care--watching over the 5000 hours. N Engl J Med (2012) 1.80

Internal medicine and general surgery residents' attitudes about the ACGME duty hours regulations: a multicenter study. Acad Med (2006) 1.79

Prolonged hospital stay and the resident duty hour rules of 2003. Med Care (2009) 1.79

Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit mortality in United States teaching hospitals. Crit Care Med (2009) 1.72

Hospital teaching intensity, patient race, and surgical outcomes. Arch Surg (2009) 1.65

Cost-effectiveness of novel regimens for the treatment of hepatitis C virus. Ann Intern Med (2015) 1.61

Behavioral economics holds potential to deliver better results for patients, insurers, and employers. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 1.52

The Hospital Compare mortality model and the volume-outcome relationship. Health Serv Res (2010) 1.46

Patient opinions regarding 'pay for performance for patients'. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 1.38

Anticipated consequences of the 2011 duty hours standards: views of internal medicine and surgery program directors. Acad Med (2012) 1.38

To leave or to lie? Are concerns about a shift-work mentality and eroding professionalism as a result of duty-hour rules justified? Milbank Q (2010) 1.30

Short- and long-term mortality after an acute illness for elderly whites and blacks. Health Serv Res (2008) 1.26

Consumers' misunderstanding of health insurance. J Health Econ (2013) 1.22

Changes in drug use and out-of-pocket costs associated with Medicare Part D implementation: a systematic review. J Am Geriatr Soc (2010) 1.22

Informative inducement: study payment as a signal of risk. Soc Sci Med (2009) 1.21

Enhancing the effectiveness of food labeling in restaurants. JAMA (2010) 1.20

Lottery-based versus fixed incentives to increase clinicians' response to surveys. Health Serv Res (2011) 1.14

Limits of readmission rates in measuring hospital quality suggest the need for added metrics. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 1.11

Patients as mercenaries?: the ethics of using financial incentives in the war on unhealthy behaviors. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2009) 1.09

Leveraging insights from behavioral economics to increase the value of health-care service provision. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 1.06

Can behavioural economics make us healthier? BMJ (2012) 1.05

Physician effectiveness in interventions to improve cardiovascular medication adherence: a systematic review. J Gen Intern Med (2010) 1.03

Commitment contracts as a way to health. BMJ (2012) 1.03

The role of behavioral economic incentive design and demographic characteristics in financial incentive-based approaches to changing health behaviors: a meta-analysis. Am J Health Promot (2015) 1.03

Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care. Ann Intern Med (2015) 1.01

Default options in advance directives influence how patients set goals for end-of-life care. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 1.01

Match rates into higher-income, controllable lifestyle specialties for students from highly ranked, research-based medical schools compared with other applicants. J Grad Med Educ (2010) 1.01

Financial incentives for home-based health monitoring: a randomized controlled trial. J Gen Intern Med (2014) 1.00

The impact of resident duty hour reform on hospital readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries. J Gen Intern Med (2010) 0.99

On the Way to Health. LDI Issue Brief (2012) 0.96

Application of the RE-AIM framework to evaluate the impact of a worksite-based financial incentive intervention for smoking cessation. J Occup Environ Med (2012) 0.94

Empirical observations on longer-term use of incentives for weight loss. Prev Med (2012) 0.94

Using default options within the electronic health record to increase the prescribing of generic-equivalent medications: a quasi-experimental study. Ann Intern Med (2014) 0.93

Internal medicine trainees' views of training adequacy and duty hours restrictions in 2009. Acad Med (2012) 0.93

Rationale and design of the Post-MI FREEE trial: a randomized evaluation of first-dollar drug coverage for post-myocardial infarction secondary preventive therapies. Am Heart J (2008) 0.92

The law, policy, and ethics of employers' use of financial incentives to improve health. J Law Med Ethics (2011) 0.92

Smoking, obesity, health insurance, and health incentives in the Affordable Care Act. JAMA (2013) 0.92

Retail clinic utilization associated with lower total cost of care. Am J Manag Care (2013) 0.91

Conflicts and compromises in not hiring smokers. N Engl J Med (2013) 0.90

Translating the hemoglobin A1C with more easily understood feedback: a randomized controlled trial. J Gen Intern Med (2014) 0.88

Incentives in health: different prescriptions for physicians and patients. JAMA (2012) 0.88

The impact of price discounts and calorie messaging on beverage consumption: a multi-site field study. Prev Med (2012) 0.88

Medicaid incentive programs to encourage healthy behavior show mixed results to date and should be studied and improved. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 0.87

Nurse staffing ratios: trends and policy implications for hospitalists and the safety net. J Hosp Med (2008) 0.86

Did postoperative mortality increase after the implementation of the Medicare Balanced Budget Act? Med Care (2006) 0.85

Are caregivers adherent to their own medications? J Am Pharm Assoc (2003) (2011) 0.84

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Workplace wellness recognition for optimizing workplace health: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association. Circulation (2015) 0.82

Heart attack risk perception biases among hypertension patients: the role of educational level and worry. Psychol Health (2011) 0.82

The effect of cuts in medicare reimbursement on hospital mortality. Health Serv Res (2006) 0.82

Turning readmission reduction policies into results: some lessons from a multistate initiative to reduce readmissions. Popul Health Manag (2013) 0.81

Assessing the effects of the 2003 resident duty hours reform on internal medicine board scores. Acad Med (2014) 0.81

A longitudinal analysis of the impact of hospital service line profitability on the likelihood of readmission. Med Care Res Rev (2012) 0.81

Effectiveness of financial incentives for longer-term smoking cessation: evidence of absence or absence of evidence? Am J Health Promot (2012) 0.81

A delicate balance: physician work hours, patient safety, and organizational efficiency. Circulation (2008) 0.80

What business are we in? The emergence of health as the business of health care. N Engl J Med (2012) 0.80

Accounting for apparent "reverse" racial disparities in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-based medical care: influence of out-of-VA care. Am J Public Health (2004) 0.79

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Impact of protected sleep period for internal medicine interns on overnight call on depression, burnout, and empathy. J Grad Med Educ (2014) 0.78

The importance of clinical severity in the measurement of hospital readmission rates for Medicare beneficiaries, 1997-2007. Med Care Res Rev (2013) 0.78

ACA-mandated elimination of cost sharing for preventive screening has had limited early impact. Am J Manag Care (2015) 0.78

Teaching hospital financial status and patient outcomes following ACGME duty hour reform. Health Serv Res (2012) 0.77

Designing a model health care system. Am J Public Health (2007) 0.77

The incorporation of patient safety into board certification examinations. Acad Med (2006) 0.77

Full prescription coverage versus usual prescription coverage after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: analysis from the post-myocardial infarction free Rx event and economic evaluation (FREEE) randomized trial. Circulation (2013) 0.77

A Qualitative Evaluation of Patient-Perceived Benefits and Barriers to Participation in a Telephone Care Management Program. Am J Health Promot (2015) 0.77

A randomized trial of a three-hour protected nap period in a medicine training program: sleep, alertness, and patient outcomes. Acad Med (2014) 0.77

Medicare Advantage: Issues, Insights, and Implications for the Future. Popul Health Manag (2016) 0.75

Are the healthy behaviors of US high-deductible health plan enrollees driven by people who chose these plans? Smoking as a case study. PLoS One (2013) 0.75

Stages of Change and Patient Activation Measure Scores in the Context of Incentive-Based Health Interventions. Am J Health Promot (2015) 0.75

Patients' views of a behavioral intervention including financial incentives. Am J Manag Care (2017) 0.75

Synchronized prescription refills and medication adherence: a retrospective claims analysis. Am J Manag Care (2017) 0.75

Does admission to a teaching hospital affect acute myocardial infarction survival? Acad Med (2013) 0.75

Boosting workplace wellness programs with financial incentives. Am J Manag Care (2017) 0.75

Managed care and hospital cost containment. Inquiry (2008) 0.75

New strategies for aligning physicians with health system incentives. Am J Manag Care (2016) 0.75

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