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  • Behavioral flags in the emergency department risk unintended consequences

    Many emergency nurses and physicians report experiencing physical, verbal, and sexual abuse while at work. In response, clinicians can add a marker to a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) referred to as a “behavioral flag.” Penn LDI researchers have examined the prevalence of behavioral flags placed in patients’ EHRs during emergency department (ED) visits in order to understand the frequency of their use, and investigated if there was a difference in how often Black and white patients were flagged.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • How ‘strategic silence’ helps employees

    The highest-performing employees know when to speak and when to stay quiet, according to new research from Wharton’s Michael Parke that looks at how employees engage in “strategic silence.”

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • A celebratory ritual for cancer patients at Penn

    When a patient completes their treatment they are given the opportunity to “ring the bell,” a brass bell hung from the wall. But for patients who have metastatic cancer and need to be on maintenance therapy for life, they may feel excluded. In the last few years, the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine has been working to make bell-ringing more inclusive.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Why the medium shapes the message in marketing

    What is the best medium for communicating with consumers? It depends on the content, according to the latest research from Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Penn Sustainability commuter survey open

    Penn Faculty and Staff are invited to share thoughts and opinions on commuting to Penn. This survey is conducted by PennPraxis on behalf of the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee Transportation Subcommittee, with the support from Facilities and Real Estate Services, Business Services and Human Resources.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Sustainability →

  • First cohort of Jacobs Education Impact Prize Fellows receives funding to develop impact ventures

    In 2022, Penn GSE launched a new partnership with the Jacobs Foundation to support the next generation of education entrepreneurs. The project seeks to create lasting change in the lives of learners worldwide by establishing a new education innovation model pipeline and accelerator. The prize’s first recipients are Aqeela Allahyari, Sidra Alvi, Psacoya Guinn, Neha Gupta, Heidi Mitchell, and Natalia Rodriguez.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • How better feedback at work can also reduce gender disparities

    Penn researchers have looked at factors that might lead to gender disparities in emergency medicine (EM), and found that gender played a role in both the content and quality of feedback. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers analyzed narrative comments for EM residents from EM attending physicians over a three-year period, across five EM training programs nationwide. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • New books from Penn GSE professors focus on free speech on campus

    Two prominent free-speech experts and Penn GSE professors, Sigal Ben-Porath and Jonathan Zimmerman, have each published new books that explore the current “cancel culture” phenomenon and how it impinges on students’ learning, American culture, and constructive discourse.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • States are increasingly powerful in shaping the lives of immigrants

    New research by LDI senior fellow Courtney finds that immigrant workers who are naturalized U.S. citizens report less use of health care and greater barriers to treatment, and offers recommendations for how policymakers can improve the health of immigrants.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Incomplete electronic health records can exacerbate bias in predictive models

    Electronic health records (EHR) data are often incomplete, creating a significant challenge for researchers, and data gaps may be unequally distributed across patient groups: People with less access to care, often people of color or with lower socioeconomic status, tend to have more incomplete EHRs. A new study from Penn LDI finds that predictive models trained using incomplete EHR data performed poorly for patients with lower access to care.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →