How do we...
- ...improve the self-management of chronic diseases?
- ...ensure we're acting ethically toward patients with impaired ability to make decisions?
- ...create graphs and charts that convey medical risk clearly?
The Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine brings together behavioral scientists and clinicians, from a wide array of fields in social science and medicine, to research health behavior and decision making, with the goal of improving health care policy and practice.
Center Highlights
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Press Coverage: Decision Aids for Health and Finance
Angela Fagerlin, PhD, talked with Financial Planning about how research on decision aids in healthcare might be used to help financial planners convey complex information to their clients. She discussed specifics: use of absolute vs relative ...
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Research News: The Cost of Cancer Treatments
The vast majority of oncologists (84%) say that they consider costs to the patient when recommending cancer treatments. But fewer than half of oncologists frequently discuss cost issues with their patients. These are some of the results ...
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Decision of the Month: The Diabetes Lobby
Tell us what you think about certain public policies designed to reduce the incidence of diabetes in the
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Research News: New Bioethics Book by Scott Kim
Oxford University Press has published Evaluation of Capacity to Consent to Treatment and Research, by CBDSM's Scott Kim, MD, PhD. The book is part of the series Best Practices in Forensic Mental Health Assessment. For further information a...
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Press Coverage: At-Risk Women Unlikely to Take Tamoxifen
CBDSM's Angela Fagerlin, PhD, is the lead author on a study showing that women at high risk for breast cancer are unlikely to choose the drug tamoxifen, even if they are well informed about its benefits. Dr. Fagerlin's research has received ...
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Research News: Women Researchers Less LIkely to Receive Major Funding
CBDSM's Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, is the lead author on a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showing that women are less likely than men to receive major funding for scientific research. The study also found that only a...
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Research News: Communicating H1N1 Health Risks
Brian Zikmund-Fisher, PhD, is one of three speakers in a recent public health webcast on strategies for conveying the health risks of the H1N1 virus. Zikmund-Fisher is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Public...
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Press Coverage: Hope and Hopelessness
A CBDSM study found that colostomy patients who felt that their condition was irreversible reported better quality of life than those who hoped that they would be cured. For a summary, see this press release and video. The researchers are D...
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Research News: "Free Market Madness" Published
Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics--and Why It Matters is the third book by CBDSM's Peter Ubel, MD. Dr. Ubel explains that our free-market economy is based on the assumption that we always act in...
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