Introducing the New Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit
We are pleased to announce the appointment of M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, as Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit. Kit brings a wealth of experience to the role with a history of leading successful, high-impact behavioral science interventions. For the past year, he has served as the Deputy Director of the Nudge Unit under former director Rinad Beidas, PhD.
Nudge Unit to support five new projects for advancing care
A new set of projects, selected among submissions from the Nudge Unit's call for proposals, will test nudge interventions with the goal of improving health care delivery and patient outcomes. Topics span risk prediction in cesarean deliveries, automated screening for hyperparathyroidism and uncontrolled hypertension, altering default prescription length for heart disease patients, and implementing default orders for breast evaluation.
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Using behavioral economics to improve health care quality
David Asch discusses the benefits of using behavioral economics to improve health care quality and provides real-world examples of its successful applications, including the Nudge Unit's work to implement default options to increase generic medication prescribing rates.
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