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Smoking cessation among underserved patients referred for lung cancer screening: A randomized clinical trial

JAMA

October 5, 2026

PAIR Center Research Team

Joanna Hart

Shira Blady

Brian Bayes

Dorothy Sheu

Vanessa Madden

Emma Britez Ferrante

Jenny Tian

Casey Whitman

Rachel Kohn

Kevin Volpp

Dylan Small

Alisa Stephens-Shields

Scott Halpern

Nudging clinicians to promote serious illness communication for critically ill patients: A pragmatic cluster randomized trial

JAMA Internal Medicine

March 17, 2025

PAIR Center Research Team

Kate Courtright

Erich Dress

Brian Bayes

Michael Harhay

Yingying Lu

Dylan Small

Casey Whitman

Jenny Tian

Vanessa Madden

Scott Halpern

Structured mobilization for critically ill patients: A pragmatic cluster-randomized trial

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

July 1, 2023

PAIR Center Research Team

William Schweickert

Juliane Jablonski

Brian Bayes

Casey Whitman

Jenny Tian

Bryan Blette

Scott Halpern