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Boosting Implementation Efforts With Behavioral Economics

JAMA Surgery 10.1001/jamasurg.2026.2540

July 08, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint presents 3 existing barriers to surgeon behavior change and describes how insights from behavioral economics could address them.

Corresponding Author: Anne P. Ehlers, MD, MPH, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, SPC 5343, 2210 Taubman Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (aehlers@med.umich.edu).

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