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Reduction in medication errors in hospitals due to adoption of computerized provider order entry systems by Radley, David C, Wasserman, Melanie R, Olsho, Lauren Ew, Shoemaker, Sarah J, Spranca, Mark D, Bradshaw, Bethany

“…Medication errors in hospitals are common, expensive, and sometimes harmful to patients. This study's objective was to derive a nationally representative…”
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Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Reduce Overweight and Obesity in Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review by Nakhimovsky, Sharon S, Feigl, Andrea B, Avila, Carlos, O'Sullivan, Gael, Macgregor-Skinner, Elizabeth, Spranca, Mark

“…The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), which can lead to weight gain, is rising in middle-income countries (MICs). Taxing SSBs may help address…”
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Preference for natural: instrumental and ideational/moral motivations, and the contrast between foods and medicines by Rozin, Paul, Spranca, Mark, Krieger, Zeev, Neuhaus, Ruth, Surillo, Darlene, Swerdlin, Amy, Wood, Katherine

“…Preference for natural refers to the fact that in a number of domains, especially food, people prefer natural entities to those which have been produced with…”
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Patients' Preferences for Technical versus Interpersonal Quality When Selecting a Primary Care Physician by Fung, Constance H., Elliott, Marc N., Hays, Ron D., Kahn, Katherine L., Kanouse, David E., McGlynn, Elizabeth A., Spranca, Mark D., Shekelle, Paul G.

“…Objective. To assess patients' use of and preferences for information about technical and interpersonal quality when using simulated, computerized health care…”
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A Comparison Between Responses From a Propensity-Weighted Web Survey and an Identical RDD Survey by Schonlau, Matthias, Zapert, Kinga, Simon, Lisa Payne, Sanstad, Katherine Haynes, Marcus, Sue M., Adams, John, Spranca, Mark, Kan, Hongjun, Turner, Rachel, Berry, Sandra H.

“…The authors conducted a large-scale survey about health care twice, once as a web and once as a random digit dialing (RDD) phone survey. The web survey used a…”
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PS1-37: Preliminary Findings of a Shared Decision-Making Exploratory Study: Improving Rates of Appropriate Aspirin Use by Shah, N., Pitcavage, J., Pozniak, A., Spranca, M., Jones, J. B.

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Are Medical Treatments for Individuals and Groups Like single-play and multiple-play Gambles? by Hershey, John C, Ubel, Peter A, Asch, David A, Spranca,, Mark D, DeKay, Michael L

“…People are often more likely to accept risky monetary gambles with positive expected values when the gambles will be played more than once. We investigated…”
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Omission bias and pertussis vaccination by Asch, D A, Baron, J, Hershey, J C, Kunreuther, H, Meszaros, J, Ritov, I, Spranca, M

“…Several laboratory studies have suggested that many people favor potentially harmful omissions over less harmful acts. The authors studied the role of this…”
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The Actor-Observer Effect Revisited: Effects of Individual Differences and Repeated Social Interactions on Actor and Observer Attributions by Robins, Richard W, Spranca, Mark D, Mendelsohn, Gerald A

“…This research examined several factors hypothesized to influence the actor-observer effect (AOE). Participants engaged in 3 successive dyadic interactions;…”
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Protected Values by Baron, Jonathan, Spranca, Mark

“…Protected values are those that resist trade-offs with other values, particularly economic values. We propose that such values arise from deontological rules…”
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Health Plan Choice and Information about Out-of-Pocket Costs: An Experimental Analysis by Schoenbaum, Michael, Spranca, Mark, Elliott, Marc, Bhattacharya, Jay, Short, Pamela Farley

“…Many consumers are offered two or more employer-sponsored health insurance plans, and competition among health plans for subscribers is promoted as a mechanism…”
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Internet Health Promotion and Behavior Change Theory: An Integrated Model Applied to Internet Interventions to Enhance Prevention and Early Detection by Culjak, Gordana, Kowalenko, Nick, Spranca, Mark, Tennant, Christopher

“…This paper is the study of the theoretical models of mental health promotion and behavior change. It presents the Integrated Model of Health Promotion and…”
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Factors affecting adoption and implementation of AHRQ health literacy tools in pharmacies by Shoemaker, Sarah J., Staub-DeLong, Leah, Wasserman, Melanie, Spranca, Mark

“…Pharmacies are key sources of medication information for patients, yet few effectively serve patients with low health literacy. The Agency for Healthcare…”
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Disenrollment information and Medicare plan choice: is more information better? by Spranca, Mark D, Elliott, Marc N, Shaw, Rebecca, Kanouse, David E

“…To help Medicare beneficiaries and their intermediaries select the best health plan, CMS publicly reports comparative plan information. Using a laboratory…”
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Do consumer reports of health plan quality affect health plan selection? by Spranca, M, Kanouse, D E, Elliott, M, Short, P F, Farley, D O, Hays, R D

“…To learn whether consumer reports of health plan quality can affect health plan selection. A sample of 311 privately insured adults from Los Angeles County…”
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Reporting About Health Care Quality: A Guide to the Galaxy by Kanouse, David E., Spranca, Mark, Vaiana, Mary

“…A review of research on the reporting of health care quality information and related fields in applied social and cognitive science led to identification of…”
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Ambiguity and underwriter decision processes by Kunreuther, Howard, Meszaros, Jacqueline, Hogarth, Robin M., Spranca, Mark

“…This paper provides empirical evidence that risk and ambiguity affect underwriters' decisions on pricing insurance. A field study of primary-insurance…”
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Internet Improves Health Outcomes in Depression by Culjak, G., Spranca, M.

“…Depression is the largest non-fatal disease burden, affecting millions of people globally each year. Increasing prevalence means that current health behaviors…”
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Public preferences for prevention versus cure: what if an ounce of prevention is worth only an ounce of cure? by Ubel, P A, Spranca, M D, Dekay, M L, Hershey, J C, Asch, D A

“…The belief that small preventive efforts bring large benefits may explain why many people say they value prevention above all other types of health care…”
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Decision-making Biases in Children and Early Adolescents: Exploratory Studies by Baron, Jonathan, Granato, Laura, Spranca, Mark, Teubal, Eva

“…In Study 1, a gifted group and an underprivileged group of subjects, ages 7 to 15, were questioned about vignettes that raised various issues in decision…”
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