Ravi Parikh: Patient and clinician-directed strategies to improve serious illness communication in cancer

Penn Cancer Innovation shared a paper by Ravi Parikh et al. titled “Patient- and Clinician-directed Nudges Help Promote Serious Illness Conversations” published on Penn Center for Cancer Innovation.

Authors: Ravi Parikh, Samuel Takvorian, Peter Gabriel, Paul Wileyto et al.                      .

Ravi Parikh, Director of the Human Algorithm Collaboration Lab, shared the post by Penn Cancer Innovation on X, adding:

“Check out our latest RCT in JAMA Network Open on patient and clinician-directed strategies to improve serious illness communication in cancer! TLDR machine learning-based nudges to both patients and clinicians result in modest increases in SICs than either or nothing. However ->

Ceiling effects exist and no observed impacts on end-of-life care quality. –> Do we focus now on making nudges more effective? Or do we move beyond nudges to ensure every patient has high-quality, early conversations?

Working on this with Sam was amazing. Also Human Algorithm Collaboration Lab, Penn Cancer Innovation, Rinad Beidas, Lola Fayanju and others!”

Quoting Penn Cancer Innovation’s post:

“New publication in JAMA Network Open led by PC3I Associate Directors Ravi Parikh and Sam Takvorian found that nudges directed at both patients with cancer and their clinicians increase the completion rate of Serious Illness Conversations (SICs).”

Sources: Ravi Parikh/X and Penn Cancer Innovation/X