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Electronic Nudges and Pragmatic Trials to Improve Hospital Palliative Care Delivery

October 2023 – In Grand Rounds 40, Dr. Courtright shares the integration of systematic referral criteria ("triggers") with behavioral insights to nudge clinicians, offering a low-cost, scalable, and powerful approach to promote palliative care delivery.

Speaker

Katherine Courtright, MD, MSHP

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR)

Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Learning Objectives

  • Consider ways to leverage technology within a learning health system to improve palliative care delivery.
  • Describe choice architecture and tradeoffs with different types of behavioral nudges.
  • Anticipate implementation challenges and opportunities for nudges to improve inpatient palliative care delivery.