The Effect of Financial Incentives on Patient Decisions to Undergo Low-value Head Computed Tomography Scans.
Rahul IyengarJessica L WinkelsChelsea Morrow SmithArjun P MekaJonathan D PorathWilliam J MeurerPublished in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2019)
Providing financial incentives to forego testing significantly decreased patient preference for testing, even when accounting for test benefit and risk. This work is preliminary and hypothetical and requires confirmation in larger patient cohorts facing these actual decisions.