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

The influence of economic incentives and regulatory factors on the adoption of treatment technologies: A case study of technologies used to treat heart attacks

Health Economics, 2009

Books

Can physicians structure clinical guidelines? experiments with a mark-up-process methodology

Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, 2009

Journal Articles

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Antiviral Prophylaxis and Adjuvanted Vaccination Strategies for an Influenza A (H5N1) Pandemic

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009

Journal Articles

Aging in America in the Twenty-first Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society

The Milbank Quarterly, 2009

Journal Articles

Hospital Performance Recognition with the Get With The Guidelines Program and Mortality for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure.

American Heart Journal, 2009

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

The influence of economic incentives and regulatory factors on the adoption of treatment technologies: A case study of technologies used to treat heart attacks

Can physicians structure clinical guidelines? experiments with a mark-up-process methodology

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Expanded Antiviral Prophylaxis and Adjuvanted Vaccination Strategies for an Influenza A (H5N1) Pandemic

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Vaccination Against Pandemic Influenza (H1N1) 2009

Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan

A Public Health Approach to Children's Mental Health Services: Possible Solutions to Current Service Inadequacies

Editorial: Health Services Research in 2020: An Assessment of the Field's Workforce Needs.

Effects of Externally Rated Job Demand and Control on Depression Diagnosis Claims in an Industrial Cohort

Aging in America in the Twenty-first Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society

Integrated delivery systems: the cure for fragmentation

Disparities in Trauma Center Access Despite Increasing Utilization: Data From California, 1999 to 2006

The Cost of Universal Influenza Vaccination of Children in Pediatric Practices

Payment Reform for Safety-Net Institutions — Improving Quality and Outcomes

Comparative Effectiveness Research Essay Introduction

The Benefits of Risk Factor Prevention in Americans Aged 51 Years and Older

Predictors of Hypertension Awareness, Treatment, and Control Among Mexican American Women and Men

Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Imaging Strategies for the Diagnosis of Small-bowel Crohn's Disease

Confronting Social Disparities in Child Health: a Critical Appraisal of Life-Course Science and Research

Facts and Fictions About an Aging America

Functional Status of Elderly Adults Before and After Initiation of Dialysis

Safety and Efficacy of Extended-Duration Antiviral Chemoprophylaxis Against Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza

Hospital Performance Recognition with the Get With The Guidelines Program and Mortality for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure.

Inpatient treatment of diabetic patients in Asia: evidence from India, China, Thailand and Malaysia

Economic Incentives to Promote Innovation in Healthcare Delivery

Fetuin-A and Change in Body Composition in Older Persons