An Effective Behavioral Nudge in the Operating Room.
An Effective Behavioral Nudge in the Operating Room.
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手术室中有效的行为推动。
DOI:
10.1097/aln.0000000000003225
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发表时间:
2020
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影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Sullivan,SeanD
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作者:
Khandelwal,Nita;Sullivan,SeanD
Default order-entry lists in electronic health records are a form of a behavioral nudge. The framing and order of choices often is purposeful, intended to nudge the user to a specific choice. A nudge is a behavioral economics concept defined as any aspect of the choice architecture that influences behavior in a predictable way, without restricting options or significantly changing economic incentives. Nudges are not mandates, but rather a way to influence behavior without coercion. 1 In fact, recognizing the potential power of nudges to influence clinician and patient behavior, the University of Pennsylvania Health System has a dedicated nudge team (the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit) that systematically develops and tests nudges to improve health care delivery. 2In this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Ershoff et al. take advantage of a natural experiment to examine whether the default dose of hydromorphone (a type of nudge) influences the quantity of hydromorphone administered intraoperatively. The authors used an interrupted time-series analysis to assess whether a change in the default dose of hydromorphone from 2mg to 1mg would influence the total quantity of hydromorphone administered to patients intraoperatively. For the first 72 weeks of the study period, hydromorphone was available in 2mg vials at the study site (n= 10,598, cohort 1); due to a change in pharmaceutical supplier, there was a period of approximately 20 weeks during which hydromorphone was solely available in 1mg vials (n= 2,981, cohort 2), after which the available unit dose was changed back to 2mg (n= 1,431, cohort 3). The authors report the change in default dose from 2mg to 1mg vials (change-point 1) was associated with a 49% relative decrease in the probability of receiving a hydromorphone dose of greater than 1mg. The reintroduction of the 2mg vial (change-point 2) was associated with a 48% relative increase in the probability of administering a dose greater than 1mg. 3