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Participation Rates With Opt-out Enrollment in a Remote Monitoring Intervention for Patients With Myocardial Infarction

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Many research studies are limited by low participation rates, threatening the generalizability of findings because participants likely differ greatly from nonparticipants. 1 Low rates of participation could be a function of the opt-in approach to enrollment, in which the default is to not participate.Behavioral economics research has shown that an opt-out approach can increase participation in retirement savings and organ donation while maintaining informed choice.2,3 We evaluated whether an opt-out approach to enrollment will increase participation in a remote monitoring intervention among patients with myocardial infarction.a Data are presented as number (percentage) of patients unless otherwise indicated.b Age at date of discharge.c Household income data taken from Census Bureau 2007-2011 release.

Source: JAMA Cardiology

DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.2374