Kevin G Volpp
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 136429 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kevin G Volpp |
| NOMBRES | Kevin G |
| APELLIDO | Volpp |
| FIRMA | VOLPP K G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3389-6707 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
What motivates participants
Gamification and financial incentives both increased physical activity in the BE ACTIVE study, but results may be improved by tailoring interventions based on participants' personal traits and level of social support to optimize motivation. (328 words) TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT03911141 Registration date: 04/09/2019
Behavioral Economics to Enhance Food Is Medicine Programs
This Viewpoint highlights ways in which behavioral economics could enhance Food Is Medicine programs in the US
Public Views on Medicaid Work Requirements and Mandatory Premiums in Kentucky
This study suggests that even when public constituencies express general support for Medicaid work requirements or premiums, they may oppose central design features, such as quotas and termination of benefits. Program participants may also hold significantly different beliefs than nonparticipants, which should be understood before policies are changed
A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries
Do Incentives Crowd Out Motivation? A Feasibility Study of a Community Vector-Control Campaign in Peru
Incentives are a useful tool in encouraging healthy behavior as part of public health initiatives. However, there remains concern about motivation crowd out-a decline in levels of motivation to undertake a behavior to below baseline levels after incentives have been removed-and few public health studies have assessed for motivation crowd out. Here, we assess the feasibility of identifying motivation crowd out following a lottery to promote partic…
Use of financial incentives and text message feedback to increase healthy food purchases in a grocery store cash back program
NCT02486588 Increasing Engagement with a Healthy Food Benefit. The trial was prospectively registered on July 1, 2015
Comparison of Pharmacy Claims and Electronic Pill Bottles for Measurement of Medication Adherence Among Myocardial Infarction Patients
BACKGROUND: Medication adherence after myocardial infarction remains low. Pharmacy claims have typically been used to measure medication adherence, but electronic pill bottles may offer additional information. OBJECTIVE: The main objectives of this study were to compare the association of adherence measured by prescription claims and remote monitoring technologies with cardiovascular events. RESEARCH DESIGN: This study was a secondary analysis of…
Informative inducement
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation
BACKGROUND: Smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Previous studies of financial incentives for smoking cessation in work settings have not shown that such incentives have significant effects on cessation rates, but these studies have had limited power, and the incentives used may have been insufficient. METHODS: We randomly assigned 878 employees of a multinational company based in the United States to …
Prolonged Hospital Stay and the Resident Duty Hour Rules of 2003
BACKGROUND: Resident duty hour reforms of 2003 had the potential to create a major impact on the delivery of inpatient care. OBJECTIVE: We examine whether the reforms influenced the probability of a patient experiencing a prolonged hospital length of stay (PLOS), a measure reflecting either inefficiency of care or the development of complications that may slow the rate of discharge. RESEARCH DESIGN: Conditional logistic models to compare PLOS in …
Effects of Resident Duty Hour Reform on Surgical and Procedural Patient Safety Indicators Among Hospitalized Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Patients
OBJECTIVE: Improving patient safety was a strong motivation behind duty hour regulations implemented by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education on July 1, 2003. We investigated whether rates of patient safety indicators (PSIs) changed after these reforms. RESEARCH DESIGN: Observational study of patients admitted to Veterans Health Administration (VA) (N = 826,047) and Medicare (N = 13,367,273) acute-care hospitals from July 1, 2000 t…
Financial Incentive–Based Approaches for Weight Loss
CONTEXT: Identifying effective obesity treatment is both a clinical challenge and a public health priority due to the health consequences of obesity. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether common decision errors identified by behavioral economists such as prospect theory, loss aversion, and regret could be used to design an effective weight loss intervention. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Fifty-seven healthy participants aged 30-70 years with a bod…
Managed Care and Hospital Cost Containment
This study assesses the ability of managed care to contain hospital costs since the managed care backlash, using data from California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development for all acute-care hospitals in the state for the period 1991-2001. The analysis employs a long-differences design to examine cost growth before and after the managed care backlash. Results from the early 1990s are consistent with prior evidence that the combina…
Will Mandated Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios Lead to Better Patient Outcomes
BACKGROUND: Mandatory hospital nurse staffing ratios are under consideration in a number of states without strong empirical evidence of the optimal ratio. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether increases in medical-surgical licensed nurse staffing levels are associated with improvements in patient outcomes for hospitals having different baseline staffing levels. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional and fixed-effects regression analyses using a 1993-2001 pan…
How Does Drug and Supplement Marketing Affect a Healthy Lifestyle
This research investigates consumer reactions to the marketing of drugs and supplements and the consequences for a healthy lifestyle. A series of experiments provides evidence that drug marketing undermines intentions to engage in health-protective behaviors (i.e., a boomerang effect). The boomerang arises from two psychological mechanisms: (1) drugs reduce risk perceptions and perceived importance of, and motivation to engage in, complementary h…
Designing a Model Health Care System
In recent years, the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has received many accolades from the lay press and academic journals for provision of care superior in quality to that provided in the private sector. The dramatic transformation of the VA’s health care can be attributed to changes VA leadership made in the 1990s. These changes included instituting a nationwide robust electronic health record and an acc…
Failure-to-Rescue
From the *Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California; and the †Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, Institute for Medicine & Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, Tennessee. Reprints: Jack Needleman, PhD, Department of Health Services, Room 31-236B CHS, University of California, Los Ang…
Is Lower 30-Day Mortality Posthospital Admission Among Blacks Unique to the Veterans Affairs Health Care System
BACKGROUND: Several studies have reported lower risk-adjusted mortality for blacks than whites within the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, particularly for those age 65 and older. This finding may be a result of the VA's integrated health care system, which reduces barriers to care through subsidized comprehensive health care services. However, no studies have directly compared racial differences in mortality within 30 days of hospitaliz…
Did Postoperative Mortality Increase After the Implementation of the Medicare Balanced Budget Act
BACKGROUND: The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 was a cost-saving measure designed to reduce Medicare reimbursements by $116.4 billion from 1998 to 2002. Resulting financial strain could adversely affect the quality of patient care in hospitals. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether 30-day mortality rates for surgical patients who developed complications changed at different rates in hospitals under different levels of financial strain from…
Accounting for Apparent “Reverse” Racial Disparities in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)–Based Medical Care
Conclusions regarding racial differences in care following a newly elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may differ depending on whether follow-up care outside the VA is considered. Consecutive Philadelphia, Pa, VA patients with newly elevated PSA tests (n = 183) were interviewed 1 year after baseline. Among exclusive VA users, Blacks had higher rates of urology referrals and prostate biopsies co…
Failure-to-Rescue
From the *Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California; and the †Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, Institute for Medicine & Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, Tennessee. Reprints: Jack Needleman, PhD, Department of Health Services, Room 31-236B CHS, University of California, Los Ang…
Informative inducement
How Does Drug and Supplement Marketing Affect a Healthy Lifestyle
This research investigates consumer reactions to the marketing of drugs and supplements and the consequences for a healthy lifestyle. A series of experiments provides evidence that drug marketing undermines intentions to engage in health-protective behaviors (i.e., a boomerang effect). The boomerang arises from two psychological mechanisms: (1) drugs reduce risk perceptions and perceived importance of, and motivation to engage in, complementary h…
Accounting for Apparent “Reverse” Racial Disparities in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)–Based Medical Care
Conclusions regarding racial differences in care following a newly elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may differ depending on whether follow-up care outside the VA is considered. Consecutive Philadelphia, Pa, VA patients with newly elevated PSA tests (n = 183) were interviewed 1 year after baseline. Among exclusive VA users, Blacks had higher rates of urology referrals and prostate biopsies co…
A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries
Accounting for Apparent “Reverse” Racial Disparities in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)–Based Medical Care
Conclusions regarding racial differences in care following a newly elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may differ depending on whether follow-up care outside the VA is considered. Consecutive Philadelphia, Pa, VA patients with newly elevated PSA tests (n = 183) were interviewed 1 year after baseline. Among exclusive VA users, Blacks had higher rates of urology referrals and prostate biopsies co…
Did Postoperative Mortality Increase After the Implementation of the Medicare Balanced Budget Act
BACKGROUND: The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 was a cost-saving measure designed to reduce Medicare reimbursements by $116.4 billion from 1998 to 2002. Resulting financial strain could adversely affect the quality of patient care in hospitals. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether 30-day mortality rates for surgical patients who developed complications changed at different rates in hospitals under different levels of financial strain from…
Designing a Model Health Care System
In recent years, the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has received many accolades from the lay press and academic journals for provision of care superior in quality to that provided in the private sector. The dramatic transformation of the VA’s health care can be attributed to changes VA leadership made in the 1990s. These changes included instituting a nationwide robust electronic health record and an acc…
Failure-to-Rescue
From the *Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California; and the †Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, Institute for Medicine & Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, Tennessee. Reprints: Jack Needleman, PhD, Department of Health Services, Room 31-236B CHS, University of California, Los Ang…
Is Lower 30-Day Mortality Posthospital Admission Among Blacks Unique to the Veterans Affairs Health Care System
BACKGROUND: Several studies have reported lower risk-adjusted mortality for blacks than whites within the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, particularly for those age 65 and older. This finding may be a result of the VA's integrated health care system, which reduces barriers to care through subsidized comprehensive health care services. However, no studies have directly compared racial differences in mortality within 30 days of hospitaliz…
Financial Incentive–Based Approaches for Weight Loss
CONTEXT: Identifying effective obesity treatment is both a clinical challenge and a public health priority due to the health consequences of obesity. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether common decision errors identified by behavioral economists such as prospect theory, loss aversion, and regret could be used to design an effective weight loss intervention. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Fifty-seven healthy participants aged 30-70 years with a bod…
Managed Care and Hospital Cost Containment
This study assesses the ability of managed care to contain hospital costs since the managed care backlash, using data from California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development for all acute-care hospitals in the state for the period 1991-2001. The analysis employs a long-differences design to examine cost growth before and after the managed care backlash. Results from the early 1990s are consistent with prior evidence that the combina…
Will Mandated Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios Lead to Better Patient Outcomes
BACKGROUND: Mandatory hospital nurse staffing ratios are under consideration in a number of states without strong empirical evidence of the optimal ratio. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether increases in medical-surgical licensed nurse staffing levels are associated with improvements in patient outcomes for hospitals having different baseline staffing levels. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional and fixed-effects regression analyses using a 1993-2001 pan…
How Does Drug and Supplement Marketing Affect a Healthy Lifestyle
This research investigates consumer reactions to the marketing of drugs and supplements and the consequences for a healthy lifestyle. A series of experiments provides evidence that drug marketing undermines intentions to engage in health-protective behaviors (i.e., a boomerang effect). The boomerang arises from two psychological mechanisms: (1) drugs reduce risk perceptions and perceived importance of, and motivation to engage in, complementary h…
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation
BACKGROUND: Smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States. Previous studies of financial incentives for smoking cessation in work settings have not shown that such incentives have significant effects on cessation rates, but these studies have had limited power, and the incentives used may have been insufficient. METHODS: We randomly assigned 878 employees of a multinational company based in the United States to …
Prolonged Hospital Stay and the Resident Duty Hour Rules of 2003
BACKGROUND: Resident duty hour reforms of 2003 had the potential to create a major impact on the delivery of inpatient care. OBJECTIVE: We examine whether the reforms influenced the probability of a patient experiencing a prolonged hospital length of stay (PLOS), a measure reflecting either inefficiency of care or the development of complications that may slow the rate of discharge. RESEARCH DESIGN: Conditional logistic models to compare PLOS in …
Effects of Resident Duty Hour Reform on Surgical and Procedural Patient Safety Indicators Among Hospitalized Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Patients
OBJECTIVE: Improving patient safety was a strong motivation behind duty hour regulations implemented by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education on July 1, 2003. We investigated whether rates of patient safety indicators (PSIs) changed after these reforms. RESEARCH DESIGN: Observational study of patients admitted to Veterans Health Administration (VA) (N = 826,047) and Medicare (N = 13,367,273) acute-care hospitals from July 1, 2000 t…
Informative inducement
Use of financial incentives and text message feedback to increase healthy food purchases in a grocery store cash back program
NCT02486588 Increasing Engagement with a Healthy Food Benefit. The trial was prospectively registered on July 1, 2015
Comparison of Pharmacy Claims and Electronic Pill Bottles for Measurement of Medication Adherence Among Myocardial Infarction Patients
BACKGROUND: Medication adherence after myocardial infarction remains low. Pharmacy claims have typically been used to measure medication adherence, but electronic pill bottles may offer additional information. OBJECTIVE: The main objectives of this study were to compare the association of adherence measured by prescription claims and remote monitoring technologies with cardiovascular events. RESEARCH DESIGN: This study was a secondary analysis of…
Do Incentives Crowd Out Motivation? A Feasibility Study of a Community Vector-Control Campaign in Peru
Incentives are a useful tool in encouraging healthy behavior as part of public health initiatives. However, there remains concern about motivation crowd out-a decline in levels of motivation to undertake a behavior to below baseline levels after incentives have been removed-and few public health studies have assessed for motivation crowd out. Here, we assess the feasibility of identifying motivation crowd out following a lottery to promote partic…
A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries
Public Views on Medicaid Work Requirements and Mandatory Premiums in Kentucky
This study suggests that even when public constituencies express general support for Medicaid work requirements or premiums, they may oppose central design features, such as quotas and termination of benefits. Program participants may also hold significantly different beliefs than nonparticipants, which should be understood before policies are changed
Behavioral Economics to Enhance Food Is Medicine Programs
This Viewpoint highlights ways in which behavioral economics could enhance Food Is Medicine programs in the US
What motivates participants
Gamification and financial incentives both increased physical activity in the BE ACTIVE study, but results may be improved by tailoring interventions based on participants' personal traits and level of social support to optimize motivation. (328 words) TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT03911141 Registration date: 04/09/2019
Medicine (18 obras) · Internal Medicine (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Family medicine (6 obras) · Gerontology (6 obras) · Health care (6 obras) · Incentive (6 obras) · Internal Medicine (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Business (5 obras)