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

The Prevalence of HIV-1 Infection Amoung Inpatients and Outpatients in Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Systems: Implications for Screening Programs for HIV

Am J Public Health, 2007

Journal Articles

Systematic Review: The Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007

Journal Articles

Regression to the Mean in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Research

Addiction, 2007

Journal Articles

The Future Pediatrician: The Challenge of Chronic Illness

Journal of Pediatrics, 2007

Journal Articles

Rosiglitazone Increased Heart failure But Did Not Differ from Metformin Plus Sulfonylurea for Other CV Outcomes at Interim Analysis

American College of Physicians Journal Club, 2007

Journal Articles

Systematic Review: The Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007

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

Imbalanced sex ratio at birth and female child survival in China: issues and prospects

Chronic Illness

Linking Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine and Blood Oxygenation

Best Practice Implementation: Lessons Learned from 20 Partnerships.

The Prevalence of HIV-1 Infection Amoung Inpatients and Outpatients in Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Systems: Implications for Screening Programs for HIV

Ongoing physical activity advice by humans versus computers: The community health advice by telephone (CHAT) trial

Cigarettes and Cinema: Does Parental Restriction of R-Rated Movie Viewing Reduce Adolescent Smoking Susceptibility?

The Veterans Health Administration and Military Sexual Trauma

Using Pedometers to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Health: A Systematic Review

Systematic Review: The Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Regression to the Mean in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Research

The Future Pediatrician: The Challenge of Chronic Illness

Rosiglitazone Increased Heart failure But Did Not Differ from Metformin Plus Sulfonylurea for Other CV Outcomes at Interim Analysis

The Relationship of Immigrant Status with Access, Utilization, and Health Status for Children with Asthma

Modeling human papillomavirus and cervical cancer in the United States for analyses of screening and vaccination

Validation of Two Models to Estimate the Probability of Malignancy in Patients with Solitary Pulmonary Nodules

CoPlot: A Tool for Visualizing Multivariate Data in Medicine

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, Fall 2007 Issue

Systematic Review: The Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Gender and Use of Care: Planning for Tomorrow's Veterans Health Administration

Improving Medicare Coverage of Psychological Services for Older Americans

Inhalational, Gastrointestinal, and Cutaneous Anthrax in Children: A Systematic Review of Cases: 1900 to 2005

International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing for End-Stage Renal Disease in France

Association of Antihypertensive Therapy and Diastolic Hypotension in Chronic Kidney Disease

Women's Awareness and Knowledge of Hormone Therapy Post-Women's Health Initiative