Our Research
At CBDSM, we perform the basic and applied scientific research that will increase healthy behavior and improve health care decision making. We see this as the final step in translating medical advances into health care practice. CBDSM researchers have been pursuing groundbreaking investigations on such topics as doctor-patient communication, psychological adaptation to disability, health care rationing, social cognition, decision aids to communicate risk, informed consent, and many more.
In this section of our website you can find scholarly publications by our investigators, information about our research groups, and press reports about CBDSM research.
Research News
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Making Decisions about Care at the End of Life
Maria Silveira, MD, MPH, is the lead author on an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (April 1, 2010) on end-of-life decision making. Silveira and her colleagues found in a large-scale study that more than a quarter of the...
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Radiation after Mastectomy Underused
Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, is the lead author on a new study showing that breast cancer patients who have had mastectomies and need radiation are less likely to receive these treatments than patients who have had lumpectomies. The article...
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Diabetes Disagreements
Brian Zikmund-Fisher, PhD, is the senior author on a study led by Donna M. Zulman, MD, that reveals about a third of doctors and their patients with diabetes do not agree on which of the patient's health conditions is most important...
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