Lab Environment
The Rise Lab works at the intersection of serious illness care, medical decision-making, and health disparities research. The overarching hypothesis underlying our work is that local organizational social norms influence physicians’ heuristics – or unconscious judgments – regarding whether a patient is near the end of life and therefore best served by a serious illness conversation to explore goals and values for end-of-life treatment.
Research Methodology
- Secondary analysis of claims data
- Participant observation and ethnography of medical decision making
- Behavioral experiments and simulation studies
- Semi-structured interviews
- Surveys
- Clinical trials
Current Research Project Topics