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

Working Papers

Predicting the Impact of a Partially Effective HIV Vaccine and Subsequent Risk Behavior Change on the Heterosexual HIV Epidemic in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A South African Example

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 2007

Journal Articles

Relationship between Antiretroviral Prescribing Patterns and Treatment Guidelines in Treatment-Naive, HIV-1 Infected U.S. Veterans

JAIDS, 2007

Journal Articles

Octogenarians and Nonagenarians Starting Dialysis in the United States

Ann Intern Med, 2007

Journal Articles

Initial Evaluation of the Patient With Lung Cancer: Symptoms, Signs, Laboratory Tests, and Paraneoplastic Syndromes: ACCP Evidenced-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

Chest, 2007

Journal Articles

Sustained Reduction in Hospital- Wide Mortality Associated with Implementation of a Rapid Response Team in an Academic Children's Hospital

JAMA, 2007

Journal Articles

Proposition 71 and CIRM - assessing the return on investment

Nature Biotechnology, 2007

Journal Articles

Gender Difference in Hospital Mortality and Use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Microsimulation Analysis of the 1999 Nationwide French Hospitals Database

Circulation, 2007

Journal Articles

Hypertension intervention nurse telemedicine study (HINTS): Testing a multifactorial tailored behavioral/educational and a medication management intervention for blood pressure control

American Heart Journal, 2007

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

Predicting the Impact of a Partially Effective HIV Vaccine and Subsequent Risk Behavior Change on the Heterosexual HIV Epidemic in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A South African Example

Relationship between Antiretroviral Prescribing Patterns and Treatment Guidelines in Treatment-Naive, HIV-1 Infected U.S. Veterans

Octogenarians and Nonagenarians Starting Dialysis in the United States

Initial Evaluation of the Patient With Lung Cancer: Symptoms, Signs, Laboratory Tests, and Paraneoplastic Syndromes: ACCP Evidenced-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

A Little Planning Goes A Long Way: Multilevel Allocation of HIV Prevention Resources

Cost-Effectiveness of Screening and Vaccinating Asian and Pacific Islander Adults for Hepatitis B

Optimal Mix of Screening and Contact Tracing for Endemic Diseases

Social networks and son preference among rural-urban migrants in China: a study in Shenzhen

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Adjuvant Trastuzumab Regimens in Early HER2/neu-Positive Breast Cancer, A

Sustained Reduction in Hospital- Wide Mortality Associated with Implementation of a Rapid Response Team in an Academic Children's Hospital

Proposition 71 and CIRM - assessing the return on investment

Gender Difference in Hospital Mortality and Use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Microsimulation Analysis of the 1999 Nationwide French Hospitals Database

Factors influencing community pediatrics training in residency

Unconventional solution: A marketing approach to solving health literacy disparities: In reply

Neural Predictors of Purchases

Marriage form and son preference in rural China: an investigation in three counties

Physician practice size and variations in treatments and outcomes: Evidence from medicare patients with AMI

Evaluation of Patients With Pulmonary Nodules: When Is It Lung Cancer?

A Systematic Review of Cost-Utility Analyses in HIV/AIDS

Race and Mortality after Acute Renal Failure

Conduct disorder

Information technology to support improved care for chronic illness

Affective Influence on Judgments and Decisions: Moving Towards Core Mechanisms

Contact Tracing to Control Infectious Disease: When Enough is Enough

Hypertension intervention nurse telemedicine study (HINTS): Testing a multifactorial tailored behavioral/educational and a medication management intervention for blood pressure control