Featured Publications

Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical period after World War II.

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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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Journal Articles

Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies to Improve HIV Testing and Receipt of Results: Economic Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2010

Journal Articles

Maxillomandibular advancement for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2010

Journal Articles

Following Your Heart or Your Head: Focusing on Emotions versus Information Differentially Influences the Decisions of Younger and Older Adults

Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 2010

Journal Articles

Evaluation of the Acceptability and Usability of a Decision Support System to Encourage Safe and Effective Use of Opioid Therapy for Chronic, Noncancer Pain by Primary Care Providers.

Pain Medicine, 2010

Journal Articles

Empirically Evaluating Decision-Analytic Models

Value Health, 2010

Journal Articles

Desalination of the American Diet: Population Strategies to Decrease Sodium Intake and the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2010

Journal Articles

Population Strategies to Decrease Sodium Intake and the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2010

Journal Articles

Improving the Mental Health of Children in Child Welfare Through the Implementation of Evidence-Based Parenting Interventions

Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 2010

Annual Reports

Characteristics of Pediatric Trauma Transfers to a Level I Trauma Center: Implications for Developing a Regionalized Pediatric Trauma System in California

Academic Emergency Medicine, 2010

Journal Articles

Preferences for dialysis withdrawal and engagement in advance care planning within a diverse sample of dialysis patients.

Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplant, 2010

Journal Articles

Quality of life of patients with advanced HIV/AIDS: measuring the impact of both AIDS-defining events and non-AIDS serious adverse events.

JAIDS, 2009

Journal Articles

Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Eligible Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Children in the Part C Early Intervention Programyourmom87!

Academic Pediatrics, 2009

Journal Articles

Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association

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

Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies to Improve HIV Testing and Receipt of Results: Economic Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Maxillomandibular advancement for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Following Your Heart or Your Head: Focusing on Emotions versus Information Differentially Influences the Decisions of Younger and Older Adults

Evaluation of the Acceptability and Usability of a Decision Support System to Encourage Safe and Effective Use of Opioid Therapy for Chronic, Noncancer Pain by Primary Care Providers.

Empirically Evaluating Decision-Analytic Models

Desalination of the American Diet: Population Strategies to Decrease Sodium Intake and the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease

Population Strategies to Decrease Sodium Intake and the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Improving the Mental Health of Children in Child Welfare Through the Implementation of Evidence-Based Parenting Interventions

CHP/PCOR winter 2010 newsletter

Impact of Managed Care on Publicly Insured Children with Special Health Care Needs

Health outcomes and costs of community mitigation strategies for an influenza pandemic in the United States.

Characteristics of Pediatric Trauma Transfers to a Level I Trauma Center: Implications for Developing a Regionalized Pediatric Trauma System in California

Preferences for dialysis withdrawal and engagement in advance care planning within a diverse sample of dialysis patients.

Policies and Politics for an Aging America

Repeat Coronary Revascularization Procedures after Successful Bare-Metal or Drug-Eluting Stent Implantations

A Collection of Articles on U.S. Health Reform

Mycobacterial tuberculosis infection in transplant recipients, early diagnosis and treatment of resistant tuberculosis

The role of parent health literacy among urban children with persistent asthma

Quality of life of patients with advanced HIV/AIDS: measuring the impact of both AIDS-defining events and non-AIDS serious adverse events.

Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Eligible Extremely-Low-Birth-Weight Children in the Part C Early Intervention Programyourmom87!

CABG versus PCI for multivessel coronary artery disease - authors' reply

Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Newborns for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

The incidence of the healthcare costs of obesity

Optimal Investment in HIV Prevention Programs: More Is Not Always Better

Can an Infectious Disease Genomics Project ‘Predict and Prevent’ the next Pandemic?