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A 57-year-old female with a past medical history of depression was brought in by emergency medical services after intentional ingestion of 400 mg warfarin and 200 mg amlodipine 4 hours before presentation. The patient was started on treatment for calcium channel blocker F I G U R E 1 Large area of skin bruising and bullae along the left lower extre...
We apply a machine learning technique to characterize habit formation in two large panel data sets with objective measures of 1) gym attendance (over 12 million observations) and 2) hospital handwashing (over 40 million observations). Our Predicting Context Sensitivity (PCS) approach identifies context variables that best predict behavior for each...
Purpose
To evaluate if nudges delivered by text message prior to an upcoming primary care visit can increase influenza vaccination rates.
Design
Randomized, controlled trial.
Setting
Two health systems in the Northeastern US between September 2020 and March 2021.
Subjects
74,811 adults.
Interventions
Patients in the 19 intervention arms receive...
Significance
Encouraging vaccination is a pressing policy problem. Our megastudy with 689,693 Walmart pharmacy customers demonstrates that text-based reminders can encourage pharmacy vaccination and establishes what kinds of messages work best. We tested 22 different text reminders using a variety of different behavioral science principles to nudge...
Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens’ decisions and outcomes¹. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes over different time intervals². The lack of comparability of such individual investigations limits their po...
Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment ( N = 47,306) testing 19 nudges delivered to patients via text message and designed to boost adoption of the influenza vaccine. Our findin...
We provide large-sample distribution theory for support vector regression (SVR) with l1-norm along with error bars for the SVR regression coefficients. Although a classical Wald confidence interval obtains from our theory, its implementation inherently depends on the choice of a tuning parameter that scales the variance estimate and thus the width...