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

Screening for HIV in health care settings: a guidance statement from the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009

Journal Articles

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: how much responsibility are pediatricians taking?

Pediatrics, 2009

Journal Articles

Colonoscopy Appropriateness: Education is Important to Identify the Right Patient, at the Right Time, for the Right Reason

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2008

Journal Articles

Are primary care physicians, public and private sector specialists substitutes or complements? Evidence from a simultaneous equations model for count data

Journal of Health Economics, 2008

Journal Articles

Intensity of Renal Support in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

N Engl J Med, 2008

Journal Articles

Economics, cultural transmission, and the dynamics of the sex ratio at birth in China

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008

Journal Articles

Development, Testing, and Findings of a Pediatric- Focused Trigger Tool to Identify Medication Related Harm in US Children's Hospitals

Pediatrics, 2008

Journal Articles

Isolated disease of the proximal left anterior descending artery. comparing the effectiveness of percutaneous coronary interventions and coronary artery bypass surgery

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, 2008

Journal Articles

Affect Dynamics, Affective Forecasting, and Aging

Emotion, 2008

Journal Articles

Population-Based Assessments of Ophthalmologic and Audiologic Follow-up in Children With Very Low Birth Weight Enrolled in Medicaid: A Quality-of-Care Study

Pediatrics, 2008

Journal Articles

Susceptibility locus for clinical and subclinical coronary artery disease at chromosome 9p21 in the multi-ethnic ADVANCE Study.

Human Molecular Genetics, 2008

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

Adult Obesity and Office-based Quality of Care in the United States

Health Reform: Getting The Essentials Right

Decision Framework for Coordinating Bioterrorism Planning, A: Lessons from the BioNet Program

Cost-effectiveness of voluntary HIV screening in Russia

Health-related Quality of Life in a Randomized Trial of Antiretroviral Therapy for Advanced HIV Disease

Patient Safety Climate in 92 US Hospitals: Differences by Work Area and Discipline

The Rebirth of Pediatrics

Knowledge-based Errors in Anesthesia: A Paired, Controlled Trial of Learning and Retention

Screening for HIV in health care settings: a guidance statement from the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: how much responsibility are pediatricians taking?

Colonoscopy Appropriateness: Education is Important to Identify the Right Patient, at the Right Time, for the Right Reason

Efforts to expand physician supply deserve scrutiny

Finding Blunders in Thyroid Testing: Experience in Newborns

Nucleus accumbens activation mediates the influence of reward cues on financial risk taking

Are primary care physicians, public and private sector specialists substitutes or complements? Evidence from a simultaneous equations model for count data

Intensity of Renal Support in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

Economics, cultural transmission, and the dynamics of the sex ratio at birth in China

Development, Testing, and Findings of a Pediatric- Focused Trigger Tool to Identify Medication Related Harm in US Children's Hospitals

Trends in charges and payments for nonhospitalized emergency department pediatric visits, 1996-2003

A prospective study of weight and metabolic syndrome in young hispanic children.

Evaluation of an architecture for intelligent query and exploration of time-oriented clinical data.

Isolated disease of the proximal left anterior descending artery. comparing the effectiveness of percutaneous coronary interventions and coronary artery bypass surgery

Affect Dynamics, Affective Forecasting, and Aging

Population-Based Assessments of Ophthalmologic and Audiologic Follow-up in Children With Very Low Birth Weight Enrolled in Medicaid: A Quality-of-Care Study

Susceptibility locus for clinical and subclinical coronary artery disease at chromosome 9p21 in the multi-ethnic ADVANCE Study.