Incentives for Change

Therapist-driven protocols: new incentives for change.

The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) defines respiratory care protocols as initiation or modification of a patient care plan following a predetermined structured set of physician orders, instructions, or interventions in which the therapist is allowed to initiate, discontinue, refine, transition, or restart therapy as the patient’s medical condition dictates.1 Most would agree t...

Emotional responses to behavioral economic incentives for health behavior change.

Many people aim to change their lifestyle, but have trouble acting on their intentions. Behavioral economic incentives and related emotions can support commitment to personal health goals, but the related emotions remain unexplored. In a regret lottery, winners who do not attain their health goals do not get their prize but receive feedback on what their forgone earnings would have been. This c...

Firm Incentives to Promote Technological Change in Pollution Control: Comment

Incentives Matter: Successfully executing transformative change within General Practice Teams

The Effectiveness of Financial Incentives for Health Behaviour Change: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND Financial incentive interventions have been suggested as one method of promoting healthy behaviour change. OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic review of the effectiveness of financial incentive interventions for encouraging healthy behaviour change; to explore whether effects vary according to the type of behaviour incentivised, post-intervention follow-up time, or incentive value. ...