A gift of life: Ethical and practical problems with conditional and directed donation.
Volk M, Ubel PA. Transplantation. 85(11):1542-1544, 2008.
Alternate methods of framing information about medication side effects: incremental risk versus total risk of occurrence.
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Roberts TR, Derry HA, Ubel PA. Journal of Health Communication. 13(2):107-124, 2008.
Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy.
Loewenstein G, Ubel PA. Journal of Political Economy. 92(8-9):1795-1810, 2008.
Considering adaptation in preference elicitations.
Damschroder LJ, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Kulpa JJ, Ubel PA. Health Psychology. In Press, 2008.
Are subjective well-being measures any better than decision utility measures?
Smith DM, Brown S, Ubel PA. Health Economics, Policy, & Law. 3(1):85-92, 2008.
"If I'm better than average, then I'm ok?": Comparative information influences beliefs about risk and benefits.
Fagerlin A, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Ubel PA. Patient Education and Counseling. 69:140-144, 2007.
Does labeling prenatal screening test results as negative or positive affect a woman's responses?
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Fagerlin A, Keeton K, Ubel PA. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 197:528.e1-528.e6, 2007.
The effect of aesthetic outcome following breast conserving surgery on psychosocial functioning and quality of life.
Waljee JF, Hu ES, Ubel PA, Smith DM, Newman LA, Alderman AK. In Press, 2007.
Mispredictions and misrecollections: Challenges for subjective outcome measurement.
Smith DM, Brown S, Ubel PA. Disability and Rehabilitation
. 1:1-7, 2007.
Provider experience and attitudes toward family presence during resuscitation procedures.
Engel KG, Barnosky A, Berry-Bovia M, Desmond J, Ubel PA. Journal of Palliative Care
. 10(5):1007-1009, 2007.
Measuring numeracy without a math test: development of the subjective numeracy scale (SNS).
Fagerlin A, Jankovic A, Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Derry HA, Smith DM. Medical Decision Making. 27:672-680, 2007.
Validation of the subjective numeracy scale (SNS): Effects of low numeracy on comprehension of risk communications and utility elicitations.
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Smith DM, Ubel PA, Fagerlin A. Medical Decision Making. 27:663-671, 2007.
Harnessing the power of default options to improve health care.
Ubel PA, Asch DA, Halpern SD. New England Journal of Medicine. 357:1340-1344, 2007.
Making numbers matter: Present and future research in risk communication.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Smith DM, Zikmund-Fisher BJ. American Journal of Health Behavior. 31(Suppl. 1):S47-S56, 2007.
Rethinking the objectives of decision aids: A call for conceptual clarity.
Nelson WL, Han PKJ, Fagerlin A, Stefanek M, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making. 27:609-618, 2007.
Sensitivity to disgust, stigma, and adjustment to life with a colostomy
Smith DM, Loewenstein G, Rozin P, Sherriff RL, Ubel PA. Journal of Research in Personality. 41(4):787–803, 2007.
The ethics of swimming pools.
Ubel PA. Hastings Center Report. 37:51-55, 2007.
Why people refuse to make tradeoffs in person tradeoff elicitations: A matter of perspective?
Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Roberts TR, Damschroder LJ. Medical Decision Making. 27:266-288, 2007.
Mortality versus survival graphs: Improving temporal consistency in perceptions of treatment effectiveness.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ. Patient Education and Counseling. 66:100-107, 2007.
Assessing the economic challenges posed by orphan drugs.
Ubel PA, Drummond M, Wilson D, Kanavos P, Rovira J. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 23(1):36-42, 2007.
An alternative approach for eliciting willingness-to-pay: A randomized Internet trial.
Damschroder LJ, Ubel PA, Riis J, Smith DM. Judgment and Decision Making. 2(2):18-28, 2007.
It must be awful for them: Healthy people overlook disease variability in quality of life judgments.
Fagerlin A, Smith DM, Loewenstein G, Lacey HP, Riis J, Ubel PA. Judgment and Decision Making. 1:146-152, 2006.
Can avoidance of complications lead to biased healthcare decisions?
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Amsterlaw J. Judgment and Decision Making. 1:64-75, 2006.
Patient comprehension of emergency department care and instructions: are patients aware of when they don't understand?
Smith DM, Ubel PA. Academic Emergency Medicine. 13:240, 2006.
Who decides? Living donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.
Ubel PA, Volk M, Lok AS, Marrero JA. Transplantation. 82:1136-1139, 2006.
Misremembering colostomies? Former patients give lower utility ratings than do current patients.
Smith DM, Sherriff RL, Damschroder LJ, Loewenstein G, Ubel PA. Health Psychology. 25:688-695, 2006.
Why Are You Calling Me? How Survey Introductions Change Response Patterns.
Ubel PA, Smith DM, Roberts TR, Schwarz N. Quality of Life Research. 15:621-630, 2006.
A matter of perspective: choosing for others differs from choosing for yourself in making treatment decisions.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Sarr B. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 21:618-622, 2006.
Are medical treatments for individuals and groups like single-play and multiple-play gambles?
Ubel PA, DeKay ML, Hershey JC, Spranca MD, Asch DA. Judgment and Decision Making. 1(2):134-145, 2006.
Individualized survival curves improve satisfaction with cancer risk management: decisions in women with BRCA 1/2 mutations.
Ubel PA, Peters N, Weber B, Armstrong K, Holmes J, Schwartz JS. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 23:9319-9328, 2005.
Do incentives matter? Providing benefits to families of organ donors.
Ubel PA, Bryce CL, Nathan H, Siminoff LA, Caplan AL, Arnold RM. American Journal of Transplantation. 5:2999-3008, 2005.
Cure me even if it kills me: Preferences for invasive treatment.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ. Medical Decision Making. 25:614-619, 2005.
Trading people versus trading time: What is the difference?
Goldstein CC, Miklosovic ME, Roberts TR, Damschroder LJ, Ubel PA. Population Health Metrics. 3:10, 2005.
Misremembering colostomies? Former patients give lower utility ratings for colostomy than do current patients.
Smith DM, Loewenstein G, Sherriff RL, Damschroder LJ, Ubel PA. Health Psychology. 25:688-694, 2005.
What is perfect health to an 85 year-old? Evidence for scale recalibration in subjective health ratings.
Jankovic A, Ubel PA, Smith DM, Langa K, Fagerlin A. Medical Care. 43:1054-1057, 2005.
Changing Times, Changing Opinions: History Informing the Family Presence Debate
Ubel PA, Kopelman MB, Engel KG. Academic Emergency Medicine. 12:999-1002, 2005.
Hope I die before I get old: Mispredicting happiness across the lifespan.
Ubel PA, Smith DM, Lacey HP. Journal of Happiness Studies. 7:167-182, 2005.
The importance of age in allocating health care resources: does intervention-type matter?
Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Johri M, Damschroder LJ. Health Economics. 14:669-678, 2005.
The impact of considering adaptation in health state valuation.
Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Damschroder LJ. Social Science and Medicine. 61:267-277, 2005.
Reducing the influence of anecdotal reasoning on people's health care decisions: Is a picture worth a thousand statistics?
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Wang C. Medical Decision Making. 25:398-405, 2005.
How making a risk estimate can change the feel of that risk: Shifting attitudes toward breast cancer risk in a general public survey.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ. Patient Education and Counseling. 57:294-299, 2005.
What's time got to do with it? Inattention to duration in interpretation of survival graphs.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ. Risk Analysis. 25:589-595, 2005.
The use of life expectancy in cancer screening guidelines: Moving with caution from model-based evidence to evidence-based guidelines.
Ubel PA, Lantz PM. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 20:552-553, 2005.
Misimagining the unimaginable: The disability paradox and healthcare decision making.
Ubel PA, Smith DM, Loewenstein G, Schwarz N. Health Psychology. 24:S57-S62, 2005.
Health, wealth, and happiness: Financial resources buffer subjective well-being after the onset of a disability.
Ubel PA, Smith DM, Kabeto MU, Langa K. Psychological Science. 16:663-666, 2005.
Disability and sunshine: Can predictions be improved by drawing attention to focusing illusions or emotional adaptation?
Ubel PA, Jepson C, Loewenstein G. American Journal of Psychiatry
. 11:111-123, 2005.
Thoughts on Koch's postulates.
Ubel PA. Virtual Mentor. 7:np, 2005.
Ignorance of hedonic adaptation to hemo-dialysis: a study using ecological momentary assessment.
Baron J, Jepson C, Loewenstein G, Riis J, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 134:9-Mar, 2005.
Emotions, decisions, and the limits of rationality: symposium introduction.
Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making. 25:95-6, 2005.
In a mailed physician survey, questionnaire length had a threshold effect on response rate.
Ubel PA, Asch DA, Hershey JC, Jepson C. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 58:103-5, 2005.
Cost and clinical practice guidelines: Can two wrongs make it right?
Ubel PA, Hummel EK. Virtual Mentor. 6:np, 2004.
Do unmet expectations for specific tests, referrals, and new medications reduce patients' satisfaction?
Ubel PA, Roter DL, Peck BM, Door Gold S, Asch DA, Jeffreys AS, Grambow SC, Tulsky JA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 19:1080-1087, 2004.
Lying to insurance companies: The desire to deceive among physicians and the public
Werner RM, Alexander GC, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. American Journal of Bioethics. 4:53-59, 2004.
Racial disparities in the treatment of localized/regional prostate cancer.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, DeMonner S, Underwood W, Sanda M, Wei JT. Journal of Urology. 171:1504-1507, 2004.
Is 28% good or bad?: Evaluability and preference reversals in health care decisions.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Zikmund-Fisher BJ. Medical Decision Making. 24:142-148, 2004.
The validity of person tradeoff measurements: randomized trial of computer elicitation versus face-to-face interview.
Asch DA, Baron J, Hershey JC, Damschroder LJ, Jepson C, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making. 24:170-180, 2004.
Altruism, incentives, and organ donation: attitudes of the transplant community.
Ubel PA, Asch DA, Nickerson CA, Jasper JD. Medical Care. 42:378-386, 2004.
Does competition for transplantable hearts lead to gaming of the waiting list?
Hollenbeak CS, Loh E, Scanlon D, Woolton L, Ubel PA. Health Affairs. 23:191-198, 2004.
The costs of denying scarcity.
Ubel PA, Alexander GC, Werner RM. Archives of Internal Medicine. 164:593-596, 2004.
Misperceptions about beta-blockers and diuretics: a national survey of primary care physicians.
Ubel PA, Asch DA, Jepson C. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 18:977-983, 2003.
Don't ask, don't tell: A change in medical student attitudes after obstetrics/gynecology clerkships toward seeking consent for pelvic examinations on an anesthetized patient.
Ubel PA, Jepson C, Silver-Isenstadt A. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 188:575-579, 2003.
When do patients and their physicians agree on diabetes treatment goals and strategies, and what difference does it make?
Ubel PA, Anderson RM, Vijan S, Heisler M, Bernstein SJ, Hofer TP. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 18:893-902, 2003.
Public response to cost-quality tradeoffs in clinical decisions.
Asch DA, Hershey JC, Jepson C, Beach MC, Mohr T, McMorrow S, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making. 23:369-378, 2003.
Effect of assessment method on the discrepancy between judgments of health disorders people have and do not have: A web study.
Baron J, Asch DA, Fagerlin A, Jepson C, Loewenstein G, Riis J, Stineman MG, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making. 23(5):422-434, 2003.
Whose quality of life? A commentary exploring discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general public.
Ubel PA, Jepson C, Loewenstein G. Quality of Life Research. 12:599-607, 2003.
Setting organ allocation priorities: should we care what the public cares about?
Ubel PA, Johri M. Liver Transplantation. 9:878-880, 2003.
What is the price of life and why doesn't it increase at the rate of inflation?
Ubel PA, Hirth RA, Chernew ME, Fendrick AM. Archives of Internal Medicine. 163:1637-1641, 2003.
When money is saved by reducing healthcare costs, where do US primary care physicians think the money goes?
Asch DA, Jepson C, Hershey JC, Baron J, Ubel PA. American Journal of Managed Care. 9(6):438-442, 2003.
The influence of cost-effectiveness information on physicians' cancer screening recommendations.
Ubel PA, Jepson C, Baron J, Hershey JC, Asch DA. Social Science and Medicine. 56:1727-1736, 2003.
Support for physician deception of insurance companies among a sample of Philadelphia residents.
Fagerlin A, Ubel PA, Alexander GC, Werner RM. Annals of Internal Medicine. 138:472-475, 2003.
Incremental and average cost-effectiveness ratios: Will physicians make a distinction?
Hershey JC, Asch DA, Jepson C, Baron J, Ubel PA. Risk Analysis. 23:81-89, 2003.
Surgical management of the rheumatoid hand: Consensus and controversy among rheumatologists and hand surgeons.
Alderman A, Ubel PA, Kim HM, Fox DA, Chung KC. Journal of Rheumatology. 30:1464-1472, 2003.
Effectiveness of rheumatoid hand surgery: Contrasting perceptions of hand surgeons and rheumatologists.
Alderman AK, Chung KC, Kim HM, Fox DA, Ubel PA. Journal of Hand Surgery. 28:3-11, 2003.
Responding to the immunoglobulin shortage: A case study.
Boulis A, Goold SD, Ubel PA. "Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law". 27:977-999, 2002.
Physicians' preferences for active-controlled versus placebo-controlled trials of new antihypertensive drugs.
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Berlin JA, Townsend RR, Asch DA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 17:689-695, 2002.
Is information always a good thing? Helping patients make "good" decisions.
Ubel PA. Medical Care. 40:39-44, 2002.
Randomized trial of 5 dollars versus 10 dollars monetary incentives, envelope size, and candy to increase physician response rates to mailed questionnaires.
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Berlin JA, Asch DA. Medical Care. 40:834-839, 2002.
Comments to "A note on cost-value analysis."
Nord E, Pinto JL, Richardson J, Menzel P, Ubel PA. Health Economics Letters. 6:12-14, 2002.
Exploring the role of order effects in person trade-off elicitations.
Ubel PA, Baron J, Richardson J. Health Policy. 61:189-199, 2002.
Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients.
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. New England Journal of Medicine. 347:284-287, 2002.
Fear of litigation may increase resuscitation of infants born near the limits of viability.
Ballard DW, Li Y, Evans J, Ballard RA, Ubel PA. Journal of Pediatrics. 140:713-718, 2002.
Interest in BRCA1/2 testing in a primary care population.
Armstrong K, Weber B, Ubel PA, Guerra C, Schwartz JS. Preventive Medicine. 34:590-595, 2002.
The role of physicians' recommendations in medical treatment decisions.
Gurmankin AD, Baron J, Hershey JC, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making. 22:262-271, 2002.
"What should I do, doc?": Some psychologic benefits of physician recommendations.
Ubel PA. Archives of Internal Medicine. 162:977-980, 2002.
The "hassle factor": What motivates physicians to manipulate reimbursement rates?
Werner RM, Alexander GC, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. Archives of Internal Medicine. 162:1134-1139, 2002.
Effect of framing as gain versus loss on understanding and hypothetical treatment choices: Survival and mortality curves.
Armstrong K, Schwartz JS, Fitzgerald G, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making. 22:76-83, 2002.
Types of inconsistency in health-state utility judgments.
Baron J, Ubel PA. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 89:1110-1118, 2002.
Physicians' willingness to participate in the process of lethal injection for capital punishment.
Farber NJ, Aboff BM, Weiner J, Davis EB, Boyer EG, Ubel PA. Annals of Internal Medicine. 135:884-888, 2001.
Between two worlds medical student perceptions of humor and slang in the hospital setting.
Parsons GN, Kinsman SB, Bosk CL, Sankar P, Ubel PA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 16:550-553, 2001.
Allocation of transplantable organs: do people want to punish patients for causing their illness?
Ubel PA, Jepson C, Baron J, Mohr T, McMorrow S, Asch DA. Liver Transplantation. 7:600-607, 2001.
Analog scale, magnitude estimation, and person trade-off as measures of healthy utility: Biases and their correction.
Baron J, Wu Z, Weeks C, Brennan DJ, Ubel PA. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 14:17-34, 2001.
Using survival curve comparisons to inform patient decision making can a practice exercise improve understanding?
Armstrong K, Fitzgerald G, Schwartz JS, Ubel PA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 16:544-549, 2001.
Putting bedside rationing back into perspective.
Ubel PA. Healthcare Papers. 2:69-75, 2001.
Who will enroll? Predicting participation in a phase II AIDS vaccine trial.
Halpern SD, Metzger DS, Berlin JA, Ubel PA. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 27:281-288, 2001.
Revising a priority list based on cost-effectiveness: the role of the prominence effect and distorted utility judgments.
Baron J, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making. 21:278-287, 2001.
Do nonpatients underestimate the quality of life associated with chronic health conditions because of a focusing illusion?
Ubel PA, Loewenstein G, Hershey JC, Baron J, Mohr T, Asch DA, Jepson C. Medical Decision Making. 21:190-199, 2001.
Preference for equity as a framing effect.
Ubel PA, Baron J, Asch DA. Medical Decision Making. 21:180-189, 2001.
Physicians, thou shalt ration: The necessary role of bedside rationing in controlling healthcare costs.
Ubel PA. Healthcare Papers. 2:10-21, 2001.
Gaming the system--Public preferences that doctors play?
Alexander GC, Werner RM, Fagerlin A, Ubel PA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 16(Suppl. 1):185, 2001.
Measuring patient expectations: Does the instrument affect satisfaction or expectations?
Peck BM, Asch DA, Goold SD, Roter DL, Ubel PA, McIntyre LM, Abbott KH, Hoff JA, Koropchak CM, Tulsky JA. Medical Care. 39:100-108, 2001.
Barriers to influenza immunization in a low-income urban population.
Armstrong K, Berlin JA, Schwartz JS, Propert K, Ubel PA. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 20:21-25, 2001.
The inclusion of patient testimonials in decision aids: effects on treatment choices.
Ubel PA, Jepson C, Baron J. Medical Decision Making. 21:60-68, 2001.
Rationing HIV medications: what do patients and the public think about allocation policies?
Green MJ, Fong S, Mauger DT, Ubel PA. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 26:56-62, 2001.
Finding a place for public preferences in liver allocation decisions.
Neuberger J, Ubel PA. Transplantation. 70(10):1411-1413, 2000.
Physicians' attitudes about involvement in lethal injection for capital punishment.
Farber NJ, Davis EB, Weiner J, Jordan J, Boyer EG, Ubel PA. Archives of Internal Medicine. 160:2912-2916, 2000.
Improving value measurement in cost-effectiveness analysis.
Ubel PA, Nord E, Gold M, Menzel P, Pinto Prades J, Richardson J. Medical Care. 38:892-901, 2000.
Are patients willing to participate in medical education?
Ubel PA, Silver-Isenstadt A. Journal of Clinical Ethics. 11:230-235, 2000.
Lying to each other: When internal medicine residents use deception with their colleagues.
Green MJ, Farber NJ, Ubel PA, Arnold RM. Archives of Internal Medicine. 160:2317-2323, 2000.
Beliefs about breast cancer risk and use of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy.
Armstrong K, Popik S, Guerra C, Ubel PA. Medical Decision Making. 20:308-313, 2000.
Understanding racial variation in the use of coronary revascularization procedures: The role of clinical factors.
Conigliaro J, Good CB, Macpherson DS, Lofgren RP, Allman R, Passman LJ, Ubel PA, O'Connor M, Hanusa BH, Whittle J. Archives of Internal Medicine. 160:1329-1335, 2000.
Pennsylvania's voluntary benefits program: Evaluating an innovative approach to increasing organ donation.
Ubel PA, Bryce CL, Siminoff LA, Caplan AL, Arnold RM. Health Affairs. 19:206-211, 2000.
Are preferences for equity over efficiency in health care allocation "all or nothing"?
Ubel PA, Baron J, Nash B, Asch DA. Medical Care. 38:366-373, 2000.
Societal value, the person trade-off, and the dilemma of whose values to measure for cost-effectiveness analysis.
Ubel PA, Richardson J, Menzel P. Health Economics. 9:127-136, 2000.
Further explorations of medical decisions for individuals and for groups.
DeKay ML, Nickerson CA, Ubel PA, Hershey JC, Spranca MD, Asch DA. Medical Decision Making. 20:39-44, 2000.
Educational content and the effectiveness of influenza vaccination reminders.
Armstrong K, Berlin M, Propert K, Schwartz JS, Ubel PA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 14:695-697, 1999.
How stable are people's preferences for giving priority to severely ill patients?
Ubel PA. Social Science and Medicine. 49:895-903, 1999.
Life-saving treatments and disabilities. Are all QALYs created equal?
Ubel PA, Richardson J, Pinto Prades J. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 15:738-748, 1999.
The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for setting health care priorities.
Ubel PA. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. 9:263-284, 1999.
Toward a broader view of values in cost-effectiveness analysis in health care.
Menzel P, Gold M, Nord E, Pinto Prades J, Richardson J, Ubel PA. Hastings Center Report. 29:7-15, 1999.
Erosion in medical students' attitudes about telling patients they are students.
Silver-Isenstadt A, Ubel PA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 14:481-487, 1999.
Incorporating societal concerns for fairness in numerical valuations of health programmes.
Nord E, Pinto JL, Richardson J, Menzel P, Ubel PA. Health Economics. 8:25-39, 1999.
Social responsibility, personal responsibility, and prognosis in public judgments about transplant allocation.
Ubel PA, Baron J, Asch DA. Bioethics. 13:57-68, 1999.
Geographic favoritism in liver transplantation--unfortunate or unfair?
Caplan AL, Ubel PA. New England Journal of Medicine. 73:933-934, 1998.
Encourage qualitative research to improve students' clinical skills!
Parsons GN, Kinsman SB, Ubel PA. Academic Medicine. 73(9):933-934, 1998.
Physicians' experiences with patient-initiated health insurance fraud.
Farber NJ, Berger MS, Davis EB, Weiner J, Boyer EG, Ubel PA. Delaware Medical Journal. 70:329-334, 1998.
Public preferences for prevention versus cure: What if an ounce of prevention is worth only an ounce of cure?
Ubel PA, Spranca MD, DeKay ML, Hershey JC, Asch DA. Medical Decision Making. 18:141-148, 1998.
'Rationing' health care. Not all definitions are created equal.
Ubel PA, Goold SD. Archives of Internal Medicine. 158:209-214, 1998.
Value measurement in cost-utility analysis: explaining the discrepancy between rating scale and person trade-off elicitations.
Ubel PA, Loewenstein G, Scanlon D, Kamlet M. Health Policy. 43:33-44, 1998.
Conducting physician mail surveys on a limited budget. A randomized trial comparing $2 bill versus $5 bill incentives.
Asch DA, Christakis NA, Ubel PA. Medical Care. 36:95-99, 1998.
Does bedside rationing violate patients' best interests? An exploration of "moral hazard".
Ubel PA, Goold SD. American Journal of Medicine. 104:64-68, 1998.
How preliminary data affect people's stated willingness to enter a hypothetical randomized controlled trial.
Ubel PA, Merz JF, Shea J, Asch DA. Journal of Investigative Medicine. 45:561-566, 1997.
Medical student name tags: Identification or obfuscation?
Silver-Isenstadt A, Ubel PA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 12:669-671, 1997.
Semantic and moral debates about hastening death: A survey of bioethicists.
Ubel PA, Asch DA. Journal of Clinical Ethics. 8:242-249, 1997.
Kidney transplant candidates' views of the transplant allocation system.
Louis ON, Sankar P, Ubel PA. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 12:478-484, 1997.
Rationing by any other name.
Asch DA, Ubel PA. New England Journal of Medicine. 336:1668-1671, 1997.
Transplantation in alcoholics: Separating prognosis and responsibility from social biases.
Ubel PA. Liver Transplantation and Surgery. 3:1-5, 1997.
Confidentiality and health insurance fraud.
Farber NJ, Berger MS, Davis EB, Weiner J, Boyer EG, Ubel PA. Archives of Internal Medicine. 157:501-504, 1997.
The role of decision analysis in informed consent: Choosing between intuition and systematicity.
Ubel PA, Loewenstein G. Social Science and Medicine. 44:647-656, 1997.
Recognizing bedside rationing: Clear cases and tough calls.
Ubel PA, Goold SD. Annals of Internal Medicine. 126:74-80, 1997.
Public preferences for efficiency and racial equity in kidney transplant allocation decisions.
Ubel PA, DeKay ML, Baron J, Asch DA. Transplantation Proceedings. 28:2975-2980, 1996.
Can we continue to afford organ transplantation in an era of managed care?
Ubel PA. American Journal of Managed Care. 2:293-297, 1996.
Public perceptions of the importance of prognosis in allocating transplantable livers to children.
Ubel PA, Loewenstein G. Medical Decision Making. 16:234-241, 1996.
Safety of dapsone as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with allergy to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole.
Beumont MG, Graziani A, Ubel PA, MacGregor RR. American Journal of Medicine. 100:611-616, 1996.
Cost-effectiveness analysis in a setting of budget constraints--is it equitable?
Ubel PA, DeKay ML, Baron J, Asch DA. New England Journal of Medicine. 334:1174-1177, 1996.
Individual utilities are inconsistent with rationing choices: A partial explanation of why Oregon's cost-effectiveness list failed.
Ubel PA, Kamlet M, Scanlon D, Loewenstein G. Medical Decision Making. 16:108-119, 1996.
Distributing scarce livers: The moral reasoning of the general public.
Ubel PA, Loewenstein G. Social Science and Medicine. 42:1049-1055, 1996.
The efficacy and equity of retransplantation: An experimental survey of public attitudes.
Ubel PA, Loewenstein G. Health Policy. 34:145-151, 1995.
Acceptance of external funds by physician organizations: Issues and policy options.
Ubel PA, Arnold RM, Gramelspacher GP, Hoppe RB, Landefeld CS, Levinson W, Tierney W, Tolle SW. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 10:624-630, 1995.
The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing. Physician duties in a climate of cost containment.
Ubel PA, Arnold RM. Archives of Internal Medicine. 155(17):1837-1842, 1995.
Doctor talk: Technology and modern conversation.
Ubel PA. American Journal of Medicine. 98:587-588, 1995.
Elevator talk: Observational study of inappropriate conversations in a public space.
Ubel PA, Zell MM, Fischer GS, Miller DJ, Peters-Stefani D, Arnold RM. American Journal of Medicine. 99:190-194, 1995.
Assisted suicide and the case of Dr. Quill and Diane.
Ubel PA. Issues in Law & Medicine. 8(4):487-502, 1993.
Rationing failure: Retransplantation of scarce, vital organs in the U.S.
Ubel PA, Arnold RM, Caplan AL. Journal of the American Medical Association. 270:2469-2474, 1993.
Impact of MELD allocation policy on utilization of high risk organs for liver transplantation.
Volk M, Lok AS, Pelletier SJ, Ubel PA, Hayward RA. In Press.
Beyond utilitarianism: A method for examining competing ethical principles in a decision analysis of liver transplantation.
Volk M, Lok AS, Ubel PA, Vijan S. Medical Decision Making. In Press.