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

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

Reducing Mortality from Anthrax Bioterrorism: Strategies for Stockpiling and Dispensing Medical and Pharmaceutical Supplies

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, 2006

Journal Articles

Public health policy for cervical cancer prevention: the role of decision science, economic evaluation, and mathematical modeling

Vaccine, 2006

Working Papers

Pediatric Anthrax: Implications for Bioterrorism Preparedness

Prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality by the Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center, under contract #290-02-0017, 2006

Journal Articles

Estimating the cost of cervical cancer screening in five developing countries

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 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

Investigation of Mediastinitis Due to Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci After Cardiothoracic Surgery

The Effect of Opening Mid-Level NICUS on the Location of Low-Birthweight Births in California

Massive cavitary pulmonary rheumatoid nodules in a patient with HIV

When in doubt should we cut it out? The role of surgery in non-small-cell lung cancer

Brief Report: Utility of a Short Screening Scale for DSM-IV PTSD in Primary Care

Employment-Based Health Insurance: Past, Present, and Future

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

A Guide to Economic Evaluation: Methods for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Person-Level Data

Expanded HIV Screening in the United States: Effect on Clinical Outcomes, HIV Transmission, and Costs

Helicobacter Pylori Infection and Gender: A Meta-Analysis of Population-Based Prevalence Surveys

Cost of Inpatient Rehabilitation Care in the Department of Veterans Affairs

New Directions for Public Health Care Purchasers? Responses to Looming Challenges

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, fall 2006 issue

Rapid HIV Testing at home: Does it Solve a Problem or Create One?

Feasibility and Cost-Effectiveness of Treating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Cohort Study in the Philippines

Reducing Mortality from Anthrax Bioterrorism: Strategies for Stockpiling and Dispensing Medical and Pharmaceutical Supplies

Public health policy for cervical cancer prevention: the role of decision science, economic evaluation, and mathematical modeling

Pediatric Anthrax: Implications for Bioterrorism Preparedness

Estimating the cost of cervical cancer screening in five developing countries