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

Characteristics of U.S. Emergency Departments That Offer Routine Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening.

Academic Emergency Medicine, 2012

Journal Articles

Cost-effectiveness of early colectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastamosis versus standard medical therapy in severe ulcerative colitis.

Ann Surg, 2012

Journal Articles

Demand for elderly care and construction of an elderly care system in China: effects of aging population and one-child policy

Population Journal, 2012

Journal Articles

The cost-effectiveness of symptom-based testing and routine screening for acute HIV infection in men who have sex with men in the USA

AIDS, 2011

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

Characteristics of U.S. Emergency Departments That Offer Routine Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening.

Cost-effectiveness of early colectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastamosis versus standard medical therapy in severe ulcerative colitis.

Epidemiology of henipavirus disease in humans

Diabetes, Its Treatment, and Catastrophic Medical Spending in 35 Developing Countries

The New Demographic Transition: Most Gains in Life Expectancy Now Realized Late in Life

Low demand for nontraditional cookstove technologies

Community hospital admission from the emergency department by persons with substance use disorders

Clinical applicability of the incidence of pediatric peptic ulcer bleeding in the United States.

The Utility of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Assessment in Relation to Adult Health

Health-related quality of life as a predictor of mortality among survivors of AKI

Predictors of emergency department death for patients presenting with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Demand for elderly care and construction of an elderly care system in China: effects of aging population and one-child policy

New Protease Inhibitors for the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Pharmaceutical industry, drug quality and regulation. Evidence from US and Italy

Assessing Screening Policies for Childhood Obesity

Health Care for 1.3 Billion: An Overview of China’s Health System

Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions

EHR Data for Complex Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and Quality Improvement: opportunities and challenges

The cost-effectiveness of symptom-based testing and routine screening for acute HIV infection in men who have sex with men in the USA

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

“The Final Inequality: Variance in Age at Death”. In: John Shoven, Ed. Demography and the Economy

Teaching physicians to assess suicidal youth presenting to the emergency department

Advancing a conceptual model of evidence-based practice implementation in public service sectors

Age differences in striatal delay sensitivity during intertemporal choice in healthy adults

Age Differences in Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Use in U.S. Individuals