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# Financial incentives and cholesterol levels.

Lesser LI & McCormack JP.

_JAMA. 315(15):1657-8. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.0309._

2016-04-19

## Abstract

Comment on: Effect of financial incentives to physicians, patients, or both on lipid levels: a randomized clinical trial. \[JAMA. 2015\]

We explain why incentives and outcome of trial reported by Asch and colleagues should have been adherence to statins, a more simple design in behavioral economics.

[PubMed abstract](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27092834)

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