Research

Hershey Recent Research 2003-2007

"The Role of Doctors' Recommendations in Medical Treatment Decisions," (with A. Gurmankin, J. Baron, and P. Ubel), Medical Decision Making, 22, 262-72 (2002).

"The Influence of Cost-Effectiveness Information on Physicians’ Cancer Screening Recommendations," (with P. Ubel, C. Jepson, J. Baron, and D. Asch), Social Science and Medicine, 56, 1727-36 (2003).

"Incremental and Average Cost-effectiveness Ratios: Will Physicians Make a Distinction?" (with D. Asch, C. Jepson, J. Baron, P. Ubel), Risk Analysis, 23, 81-9, 2003.

"When Money is Saved by Reducing Health Care Costs, Where do Physicians Think the Money Goes? (with D. Asch, C. Jepson, J. Baron, and P. Ubel), American Journal of Managed Care, 9, 438-42, 2003.

"Public Response to Cost-Quality Tradeoffs in Clinical Decisions" (with M. C. Beach, D. Asch, C. Jepson, T. Mohr, S. McMorrow, and P. Ubel), Medical Decision Making, 23, 369-78, 2003.

"Life Insurance and Breast Cancer Risk Assessment: Adverse Selection, Genetic Testing Decisions, and Discrimination,” (with K. Armstrong, B. Weber, G. FitzGerald, M. Pauly, J. Lemaire, K. Subramanian, and D. Asch), American Journal of Medical Genetics, 120A, 359-64, 2003.

"The Validity of Person Tradeoff Measurements: A Randomized Trial of Computer Elicitation versus Face-to-Face Interview," (with L. J. Damschroder, J. Baron, D. A. Asch, C. Jepson, and P. A. Ubel), Medical Decision Making, 24, 170-180, 2004.

"Is Questionnaire Length Associated with Physician Response Rate to a Mailed Survey? Yes – and No" (with C. Jepson, D. A. Asch, and P. A. Ubel)" Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58, 103-105, 2005.

“Adverse Selection in Term Life Insurance Purchasing Due to the BRCA Genetic Test and Elastic Demand,” (with K. Viswanathan, J. Lemaire, K. Withers, K. Armstrong, A. Baumritter, M. Pauly, and D. Asch), Journal of Risk and Insurance, in press.

“Distorting the Probability of Treatment Success to Justify Treatment Decisions,” (with A. Gurmankin), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, in press.

"Promises and Lies: Restoring Violated Trust," (with M. Schweitzer and E. Bradlow), Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, in press.

WORKING PAPERS

• "Formalization of the Health Belief Model: Measuring Health Beliefs in Compliance Studies"
• "Health Services Research and Health Policy Formulation," (with W. P. Pierskalla)
• "Will People Choose Cost-Sharing Health Insurance Options?" (with H. C. Kunreuther, J. S. Schwartz, and S. V. Williams)
• "Integrating Prescriptive and Descriptive Analyses Using a Computer-Based Decision Support System," (with H. C. Kunreuther and S. Schocken)
  
• "Vertically Integrated Systems: A Delphi Study," (with L. M. Hack)
  
• "Decision Thresholds and Positivity Criteria for Two Dichotomous Tests," (with R. D. Cebul and S. V. Williams)
  
• "Comparing Alternative Testing Strategies for Two Dichotomous Tests," (with R. D. Cebul and S. V. Williams)
  
• "Decision Thresholds and Positivity Criteria when Combining Continuously-Scaled with Dichotomous Diagnostic Tests," (with R. D. Cebul and S. V. Williams), Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
  
• "Does a Decision Aid Help Physicians Estimate the Probability of Coronary Heart Disease or Decide on Angiography? A Comparison of Family Physicians and Cardiologists," (with M. J. Young, J. M. Eisenberg, L. S. Fried, and S. Williams)
  
• "Precise Probability Estimates and Decision Theory," (with M. J. Young, J. M. Eisenberg, L. S. Fried and S. Williams)
  
• "Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: Decision Thresholds for Recommending Coronary Arteriography," (with M. J. Young, S. Williams, J. M. Eisenberg, and L. S. Fried)
  
• "Interaction Effects in Risky Choice," (with P. Schoemaker)
  
• "Failure to Integrate Tax Increases and Insurance Savings: Why Some People Resist Government Health Insurance," (with J. Baron)
  
• "Keeping Clinical Practice in Focus When Making Health Policy Decisions," (with D. Asch)
  
• "Whose Quality of Life? Exploring Discrepancies between Health State Evaluations of Patients and the General Public, (with P. Ubel, G. Loewenstein, J. Baron, D. Asch, and C. Jepson) (submitted)
  
• “Are Medical Treatments for Individuals and Groups Like Single-Play and Multiple-Play Gambles?” (with M. L. Dekay, M. D. Spranca, P. A. Ubel, and D. A. Asch) (in revision)
  
• “Value-Induced Bias in Medical Decision Making,” (with A. Gurmanken-Levy), (first submission).
  
• “Asymmetry in Price and Risk Elasticity for Term Life Insurance.” (in revision)