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

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

Free Internet Access, the Digital Divide, and Health Information

Veterans' study to improve the control of hypertension (V-STITCH): design and methodology, The

Technology Diffusion, Hospital Variation, and Racial Disparities Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: 1989-2000

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, spring 2005 issue

Health Care Vouchers - A Proposal for Universal Coverage

Expenditures in Schizophrenia: A Comparison of Olanzapine and Risperidone

Monochorionic triplet gestation after in vitro fertilization using donor oocytes: case report and review

Listening to Patients: Cultural and Linguistic Barriers to Health Care Access

Invariance and Inconsistency in Utility Ratings

Helicobacter Pylori Infection and the Risk of Development of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma

Expanded Screening for HIV in the United States: An Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness

Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for HIV in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The Twentieth Century United States

National Trends in Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor Use Since Market Release

Trends in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator racial disparity: the importance of geography

Specialty Selection and Lifetime Returns to Specialization Within Medicine

Evidence-based Guidelines as a Foundation for Performance Incentives

Evidence-based medicine and policy: the case of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator

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

Cost-effectiveness of training unselected laypersons in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, winter 2005 issue

Evaluating Provider Adherence in a Trial of a Guideline-based Decision Support System for Hypertension

Predictors of Medical Service Utilization Among Substance Abusers with HIV Infection

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 2: Diabetes Care)

Should U.S. hospitals go 24/7?