Introduction
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Research in behavioral economics has suggested principles to influence people’s behaviors, or “nudging” [This study’s aim was to assess the feasibility of using crowdsourced survey experiments to assess the efficacy of behavioral economics–based interventions in improving patient partnership behavior in their own care, with a particular focus on comparing simulated incentives to actual incentives. Additionally, the study intended to assess the impact of 2 behavioral economics–based intervention designs, psychological rewards and loss framing, on simulated patient partnership behaviors in a simulated primary care setting. Should crowdsourcing be proven feasible, we may use the method to evaluate a large range of design options quickly and efficiently and identify a small subset of candidate interventions for subsequent detailed, multimethod evaluations and implementation trials that can be more strategic and efficient.We selected bringing medications to primary care visits as the targeted partnership behavior to improve medication safety. Inappropriate medication use in community settings is frequent, as indicated by medication harm related visits to the emergency department [