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

Screening for HIV in health care settings: a guidance statement from the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009

Journal Articles

Population-Based Assessments of Ophthalmologic and Audiologic Follow-up in Children With Very Low Birth Weight Enrolled in Medicaid: A Quality-of-Care Study

Pediatrics, 2008

Journal Articles

Isolated disease of the proximal left anterior descending artery. comparing the effectiveness of percutaneous coronary interventions and coronary artery bypass surgery

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, 2008

Journal Articles

Susceptibility locus for clinical and subclinical coronary artery disease at chromosome 9p21 in the multi-ethnic ADVANCE Study.

Human Molecular Genetics, 2008

Journal Articles

The cost-effectiveness of counseling strategies to improve adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy among men who have sex with men

Medical Decision Making, 2008

Journal Articles

Coronary Heart Disease Among Diabetic and Nondiabetic People: Socioeconomic Differences in Incidence, Prognosis and Mortality

Journal of Diabetes and Its Complication, 2008

Journal Articles

Anticipatory affect: neural correlates and consequences for choice

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008

Journal Articles

An Intervention to Decrease Narcotic Related Adverse Drug Events in Children's Hospitals

Pediatrics, 2008

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

Screening for HIV in health care settings: a guidance statement from the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: how much responsibility are pediatricians taking?

Decision Framework for Coordinating Bioterrorism Planning, A: Lessons from the BioNet Program

Cost-effectiveness of voluntary HIV screening in Russia

Health-related Quality of Life in a Randomized Trial of Antiretroviral Therapy for Advanced HIV Disease

Patient Safety Climate in 92 US Hospitals: Differences by Work Area and Discipline

Trends in charges and payments for nonhospitalized emergency department pediatric visits, 1996-2003

A prospective study of weight and metabolic syndrome in young hispanic children.

Evaluation of an architecture for intelligent query and exploration of time-oriented clinical data.

Affect Dynamics, Affective Forecasting, and Aging

Population-Based Assessments of Ophthalmologic and Audiologic Follow-up in Children With Very Low Birth Weight Enrolled in Medicaid: A Quality-of-Care Study

Isolated disease of the proximal left anterior descending artery. comparing the effectiveness of percutaneous coronary interventions and coronary artery bypass surgery

Susceptibility locus for clinical and subclinical coronary artery disease at chromosome 9p21 in the multi-ethnic ADVANCE Study.

ABC's and 123's: Parental literacy, numeracy, and childhood obesity

Individual differences in insular sensitivity during loss anticipation predict avoidance learning

Frequency of HIV Screening in the Veterans Health Administrations: Implications for Early Diagnosis of HIV Infection

Treatment effect bounds under monotonicity assumptions: An application to swan-ganz catheterization

Injection Therapies for Variceal Bleeding Disorders of the GI Tract

Intergenerational support and self-rated health of the elderly in rural China. In: D. Yi, D. Poston and J. Smith (Eds).

Infectious disease control policy: A role for simulation

Adverse Medical Outcomes of Early Newborn Screening Programs for Phenylketonuria

The cost-effectiveness of counseling strategies to improve adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy among men who have sex with men

Coronary Heart Disease Among Diabetic and Nondiabetic People: Socioeconomic Differences in Incidence, Prognosis and Mortality

Anticipatory affect: neural correlates and consequences for choice

An Intervention to Decrease Narcotic Related Adverse Drug Events in Children's Hospitals