Featured Publications

Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care Through Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) Policy

This policy brief by Alyce Adams and Mateen Ghassemi examines the financial burden experienced by cancer patients and their families, impacting around half of cancer survivors.

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International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Stanford Health Policy’s Maria Polyakova, PhD, and colleagues set out to measure how much doctors earn and, crucially, where their incomes fall within the overall income rankings of four wealthy countries: the US, Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands

NBER Paper

Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses

New research by SIEPR and SHP scholars Adrienne Sabety and Maya Rossin-Slater shows how early exposure to public preschool benefits low-income children with behavioral and developmental conditions.

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Study Finds Gaza Violent Death Toll Likely 35% Higher Than Official Estimates

A Study by Eran Bendavid in The Lancet Global Health finds the number of violent deaths in the Gaza Strip in the first year of the conflict with Israel was underreported

The Lancet Global Health Study

Promoting Fairness in Screening Programs for Late-Career Practitioners

SHP's Michelle Mello argues there are late-career physician programs that can balance patient safety with procedural fairness.

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Guidance for Clinicians Navigating Conflicting Vaccination Recommendations

SHP’s Michelle Mello and former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky offer recommendations to clinicians struggling to follow new vaccine guidelines.

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Post COVID-19 Hypertension: A Longitudinal Study of 40,000 Incarcerated Adults

SHP researchers and colleagues at the California Correctional Health Care Services find that COVID-19 is associated with significant increases in hypertension incidence in the large, racially and ethnically diverse prison population.

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When AI Algorithms Decide Whether Your Insurance Will Cover Your Care

In this Health Affairs study, Stanford researchers examine the promises of efficiency and risks of supercharged flaws in the race to use artificial intelligence in health care.

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Publications

Journal Articles

Matching outpatient prosthetics order records in the VA National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) to health care utilization databases

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 2010

Journal Articles

Addressing Financial Toxicity in Cancer Care Through Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) Policy

International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Public Preschool Aids in Developmental, Learning-Related Diagnoses

Study Finds Gaza Violent Death Toll Likely 35% Higher Than Official Estimates

Promoting Fairness in Screening Programs for Late-Career Practitioners

Guidance for Clinicians Navigating Conflicting Vaccination Recommendations

Post COVID-19 Hypertension: A Longitudinal Study of 40,000 Incarcerated Adults

When AI Algorithms Decide Whether Your Insurance Will Cover Your Care

Historical trends in low birth weight: Commentary

Science as superstition: selecting medical students

Birth Registration in China: Practices, Problems and Policies

Characteristics of children with elevated symptoms of mania: The longitudinal assessment of manic symptoms (LAMS) study

Acinetobacter baumannii: An Emerging and Important Pathogen

Estimating Lost Revenue from a Free-Care Mandate in VA

HMO coverage reduces variations in the use of health care among patients under age sixty-five

The effects of competition on assisted reproductive technology outcomes

Cost-effective control of chronic viral diseases: Finding the optimal level of screening and contact tracing

Cost-effectiveness of nationwide hepatitis B catch-up vaccination among children and adolescents in china

Assessing cost-effectiveness and value as imaging grows: The case of carotid artery CT

Floating choices: a generational perspective on intentions of rural-urban migrants in China

Committing to exercise: Contract design for virtuous habit formation

Cyclicality, Mortality, and the Value of Time: The Case of Coffee Price Fluctuations and Child Survival in Colombia

Matching outpatient prosthetics order records in the VA National Prosthetics Patient Database (NPPD) to health care utilization databases

Caregiver reports of serious injuries in children who remain at home after a child protective services investigation

Evaluating permanent disability ratings using empirical data on earnings losses

Expected value information improves financial risk taking across the adult life span

Maxillomandibular advancement for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Choice Set Size and Decision Making: The Case of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans

Integrating tobacco cessation into mental health care for posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized, controlled trial

Insurance mandates, embryo transfer, outcomes - the link is tenuous

Public Avoidance and the Epidemiology of Novel H1N1 Influenza A

Cost effectiveness of nationwide Hepatitis B catch-up vaccination among children and adolescents in China

The lure of treatment: Expanded newborn screening and the curious case of histidinemia