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

Encouraging Posttreatment Self-Help Group Involvement to Reduce Demand for Continuing Care Services: Two-Year Clinical and Utilization Outcomes

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2007

Offline Testing of the ATHENA Hypertension Decision Support System Knowledge Base to Improve the Accuracy of Recommendations

AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2006

Journal Articles

Lack of replication of thirteen single-nucleotide polymorphisms implicated in Parkinson's disease: a large-scale international study.

Lancet Neurol, 2006

Journal Articles

The Effects of Geriatric Evaluation and Management On Nursing Home Use and Health Care Costs: Results From A Randomized Trial

Early Human Development, 2006

Journal Articles

Quality-of-Care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an Expert Panel Process

Pediatrics, 2006

Journal Articles

Value of Quantitative D-dimer Assays in Identifying Pulmonary Embolism: Implications from a Sequential Decision Model

Academic Emergency Medicine, 2006

Books

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd Edition

Springer, 2006

Journal Articles

Use of Declarative Statements in Creating and Maintaining Computer-Interpretable Knowledge Bases for Guideline-Based Care

AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2006

Journal Articles

"Water, Water Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities," in Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin (eds.)

University of Chicago Press, 2006

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

Encouraging Posttreatment Self-Help Group Involvement to Reduce Demand for Continuing Care Services: Two-Year Clinical and Utilization Outcomes

Personal and Treatment-Related Predictors of Abstinence Self-Efficacy

Does Cancer Risk Affect Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Barrett's Esophagus?

Barriers to the Identification and Management of Psychosocial Issues in Children and Maternal Depression

Breakfast of champions? the school breakfast program and the nutrition of children and families

Definition of Metabolic Syndrome in Preadolescent Girls

Offline Testing of the ATHENA Hypertension Decision Support System Knowledge Base to Improve the Accuracy of Recommendations

Lack of replication of thirteen single-nucleotide polymorphisms implicated in Parkinson's disease: a large-scale international study.

Trauma Center Utilization for Children 1998-2004: Trends and Areas for Further Analysis

Task Analysis of Writing Hospital Admission Orders: Evidence of a Problem-Based Approach

Acquisition of Helicobacter Pylori Infection in Rhesus Macaques is Most Consistent with Oral-Oral Transmission

Changes of Gene Expression in Gastric Preneoplasia Following Helicobacter pylori Eradication Therapy

The Effects of Geriatric Evaluation and Management On Nursing Home Use and Health Care Costs: Results From A Randomized Trial

The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Evaluating Detection of an Inhalational Anthrax Outbreak

Marriage form and fertility in rural China: an investigation in three counties

Quality-of-Care Indicators for the Neurodevelopmental Follow-up of Very Low Birth Weight Children: Results of an Expert Panel Process

Value of Quantitative D-dimer Assays in Identifying Pulmonary Embolism: Implications from a Sequential Decision Model

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd Edition

Use of Declarative Statements in Creating and Maintaining Computer-Interpretable Knowledge Bases for Guideline-Based Care

Changes in Antihypertensive Prescribing During US Outpatient Visits for Uncomplicated Hypertension Between 1993 and 2004

Validation of the Blood Quininium Resin Test for Assessing Gastric Hypochlorhydria

Declining Mortality in Patients with Acute Renal Failure, 1988-2002

Self-Efficacy, Therapeutic Alliance, and Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Outcomes

"Water, Water Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities," in Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin (eds.)