Ben Schwan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Schwan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwan |
| SIGNATURE | BEN SCHWAN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5027-9810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ditching decision-making capacity
Decision-making capacity (DMC) plays an important role in clinical practice—determining, on the basis of a patient’s decisional abilities, whether they are entitled to make their own medical decisions or whether a surrogate must be secured to participate in decisions on their behalf. As a result, it is critical that we get things right—that our conceptual framework be well-suited to the task of helping practitioners systematically sort through th…
Recruitment Techniques Used for Clinical Trials and the Potential Impact of Nudges
While clinical trials are essential to improving public health, little research has examined the range of recruitment techniques used or whether they involve behavioral nudges. Behavioral nudges have been defined as "any aspect of the choice architecture [the manner in which options are presented] that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives"; these may influ…
Sovereignty, authenticity and the patient preference predictor
No currently available treatments reduce the progression or suppress the inflammation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, with a better understanding of the inflammatory and destructive process, several targets have been identified, and new treatments are now in clinical development. Several specific therapies are directed against the influx of inflammatory cells into the airways and lung parenchyma that occurs in COPD, incl…
Autonomy concerns with using contracts to enhance patient adherence
The failure of many patients with chronic conditions to correctly follow medical advice that they hope or intend to follow is a major concern, especially as effective long‐term therapies for chronic conditions materialize. Some US healthcare providers have responded with strategies that involve implementing contracts with their patients, including provisions that may deny future treatments after continued nonadherence. This is among the first art…
Egalitarian Machine Learning
Responsibility amid the social determinants of health
It is natural to think that there is a tight connection between whether someone is responsible for some outcome and whether it is appropriate to hold her accountable for that outcome. And this natural thought naturally extends to health: if someone is responsible for her health, then, all else being equal, she is accountable for it. Given this, some have thought that responsibility for health has an important role to play in distributing the bene…
Wrongfulness rewarded
Responsibility amid the social determinants of health
It is natural to think that there is a tight connection between whether someone is responsible for some outcome and whether it is appropriate to hold her accountable for that outcome. And this natural thought naturally extends to health: if someone is responsible for her health, then, all else being equal, she is accountable for it. Given this, some have thought that responsibility for health has an important role to play in distributing the bene…
Wrongfulness rewarded
Sovereignty, authenticity and the patient preference predictor
No currently available treatments reduce the progression or suppress the inflammation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, with a better understanding of the inflammatory and destructive process, several targets have been identified, and new treatments are now in clinical development. Several specific therapies are directed against the influx of inflammatory cells into the airways and lung parenchyma that occurs in COPD, incl…
Autonomy concerns with using contracts to enhance patient adherence
The failure of many patients with chronic conditions to correctly follow medical advice that they hope or intend to follow is a major concern, especially as effective long‐term therapies for chronic conditions materialize. Some US healthcare providers have responded with strategies that involve implementing contracts with their patients, including provisions that may deny future treatments after continued nonadherence. This is among the first art…
Egalitarian Machine Learning
Ditching decision-making capacity
Decision-making capacity (DMC) plays an important role in clinical practice—determining, on the basis of a patient’s decisional abilities, whether they are entitled to make their own medical decisions or whether a surrogate must be secured to participate in decisions on their behalf. As a result, it is critical that we get things right—that our conceptual framework be well-suited to the task of helping practitioners systematically sort through th…
Recruitment Techniques Used for Clinical Trials and the Potential Impact of Nudges
While clinical trials are essential to improving public health, little research has examined the range of recruitment techniques used or whether they involve behavioral nudges. Behavioral nudges have been defined as "any aspect of the choice architecture [the manner in which options are presented] that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives"; these may influ…
Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works)