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Highlights from the sixth Nudges in Health Care Symposium
The Penn Medicine Nudge Unit’s annual symposium gathered health care practitioners, researchers, and leaders to share practices, build skills, and explore new trends in behavioral nudges for better patient and clinician outcomes.
A path to dismantling racism in the emergency department
In an opinion piece, Anish Agarwal and colleagues urge emergency departments to uncover and address inequitable practices. The authors suggest measures to mitigate biases associated with queue jumping, behavioral flags, triage, and referrals and recommend partnering with patients and communities to improve emergency care.
The Population Health Lab: Multiplying impact in preventive and chronic care
The Population Health Lab at Penn Medicine partners with clinical teams to design, assess, and scale behaviorally focused interventions to advance care at the population level.
Mental health of care workers provided with a well-being platform improves more with SMS "pushes"
Depression and anxiety scores of Penn Medicine employees significantly improved with access to the mental health platform Cobalt, finds a clinical trial led by the Center for Insights to Outcomes. Greater gains were experienced by participants who received a text message intervention connecting them to information about mental health, assessments, and care offerings.
Choice of colorectal cancer tests increases screening rates
Population Health Lab researchers offered different colorectal cancer screening methods – an at-home fecal immunochemical test (FIT), a colonoscopy, or a choice of either – to patients of a community health center to learn which option led to the highest screening rates. Patients offered the choice had the highest completion rate, double that of those in the colonoscopy-only group.