The Effect of Financial Incentives on Patient Decisions to Undergo Low-value Head Computed Tomography Scans.

CONCLUSIONS: Providing financial incentives to forego testing significantly decreased patient preference for testing, even when accounting for test benefit and risk. This work is preliminary and hypothetical and requires confirmation in larger patient cohorts facing these actual decisions. PMID: 31535430 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31535430?dopt=Abstract

Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - September 18, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Iyengar R, Winkels JL, Smith CM, Meka AP, Porath JD, Meurer WJ Tags: Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research