Browsing Duke Faculty Articles by Duke-affiliated Author "Weinfurt, Kevin Phillip"

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Can prospect theory explain risk-seeking behavior by terminally ill patients?

Rasiel, Emma; Weinfurt, Kevin; Schulman, Kevin (Medical Decision Making, 2005)

Patients with life-threatening conditions sometimes appear to make risky treatment decisions as their condition declines, contradicting the risk-averse behavior predicted by expected utility theory. Prospect theory ...
Consistency of Financial Interest Disclosures in the Biomedical Literature: The Case of Coronary Stents

Weinfurt, Kevin; Seils, Damon; Tzeng, Janice P.; Lin, Li; Schulman, Kevin; Califf, Robert (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2008)

Background: Disclosure of authors' financial interests has been proposed as a strategy for protecting the integrity of the biomedical literature. We examined whether authors' financial interests were disclosed consistently ...