Tag: behavioral science
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Strategy Sought to Encourage New Anticoagulant Prescriptions
A new challenge on InnoCentive is looking for new ways to encourage physicians to prescribe anticoagulant drugs other than the commonly used warfarin for decreasing the formation of blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation. The competition has a total purse of $7,500 and a deadline of 27 November 2013. InnoCentive in Waltham, Massachusetts conducts…
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Network Analysis Shows Drug Resistant Infection Factors
Operations researchers and computer scientists at University of Maryland in College Park and American University in Washington, D.C. identified interpersonal network interactions that help spread antibiotic resistant infections through a hospital. Maryland business professors Sean Barnes and Bruce Golden, with American University information technology faculty Edward Wasil, published their findings earlier this month in the…
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High Speed Internet in Cars Found Distracting to Drivers
Psychologists and engineers at University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada found adding high speed Internet connections to cars creates potential distraction risks to drivers, even when used with hands-free voice-controlled devices. The team led by Toronto psychologist Ian Spence published its findings in the September-October 2013 issue of the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology (paid subscription…