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

Significance of Transiently Positive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Results in Detection of Helicobacter pylori in Stool Samples from Children

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2005

Journal Articles

What Can a Pilot Congestive Heart Failure Disease Management Program Tell Us About Return on Investment? A Case Study from a Program Offered to Federal Employees

Disease Management, 2005

Working Papers

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 3: Hypertension Care)

AHRQ Technical Reviews and Summaries, 2005

Journal Articles

Disparities in Diabetes Care: Impact of Mental Illness

Archives of Internal Medicine, 2005

Journal Articles

The practitioner's dilemma: can we use a patient's race to predict genetics, ancestry, and the expected outcomes of treatment?

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2005

Journal Articles

Improving Adherence to Guidelines for Hypertension Drug Prescribing: Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial of General versus Patient-Specific Recommendations

American Journal of Managed Care, 2005

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

Significance of Transiently Positive Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Results in Detection of Helicobacter pylori in Stool Samples from Children

What Can a Pilot Congestive Heart Failure Disease Management Program Tell Us About Return on Investment? A Case Study from a Program Offered to Federal Employees

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 3: Hypertension Care)

Disparities in Diabetes Care: Impact of Mental Illness

The practitioner's dilemma: can we use a patient's race to predict genetics, ancestry, and the expected outcomes of treatment?

Overestimation of clinical diagnostic performance caused by low necropsy rates

Elevated late-night salivary cortisol levels in elderly male type 2 diabetic veterans

Depression treatment during outpatient visits by U.S. children and adolescents

Cost-effectiveness of cervical-cancer screening in five developing countries.

The costs of reducing loss to follow-up in South African cervical cancer screening.

Evaluating The Efficiency Of California Providers In Caring For Patients With Chronic Illness

Health Care Reform: Why? What? When?

Improving Adherence to Guidelines for Hypertension Drug Prescribing: Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial of General versus Patient-Specific Recommendations

The patents-based pharmaceutical development process: rationale, problems, and potential reforms

Cost-Effectiveness of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators

Screening for Hereditary Hemochromatosis: a Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, fall 2005 issue

Internet use and stigmatized illness

Rating Methodological Quality: Toward Improved Assessment and Investigation

Competition in Health Care: It Takes Systems to Pursue Quality and Efficiency

ACE inhibitor reminders attached to echocardiography reports of patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction

Neural basis of financial risk taking, the

Helicobacter pylori Infection in Different Generations of Hispanics in the San Francisco Bay Area

Adherence to Medication

Health insurance and the obesity externality