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

Addressing Resource Allocation Issues in Recommendations from Clinical Practice Guideline Panels: Suggestions from an American College of Chest Physicians Task Force

Chest, 2006

Newsletters

Effect of Geriatrics Evaluation and Management on Nursing Home Use and Health Care Costs: Results From a Randomized Trial

Medical Care, 2006

Working Papers

Design of the VA/NIH Acute Renal Failure Trial Network (ATN) Study: Intensive Versus Conventional Renal Support in Acute Renal Failure

Clinical Trials, 2005

Journal Articles

Consequences of health trends and medical innovation for the future elderly

Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2005

Journal Articles

Underutilization of aspirin persists in US ambulatory care for the secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular disease

PLoS Medicine, 2005

Journal Articles

The Impact of Patient Self-Testing of Prothrombin Time for Managing Anticoagulation: Rationale and Design of VA Cooperative Study #481 -- The Home INR Study (THINRS)

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, 2005

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

Statin and Beta-Blocker Therapy and the Initial Presentation of Coronary Heart Disease

Measures of Pediatric Health Care Quality Based on Hospital Administrative Data

Estimating Probit Models with Self-Selected Treatments

The Effect of Diagnosis with HIV Infection on Health-Related Quality of Life

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Vol. 4: Antibiotic Prescribing Behavior

Addressing Resource Allocation Issues in Recommendations from Clinical Practice Guideline Panels: Suggestions from an American College of Chest Physicians Task Force

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, winter 2006 issue

Racial differences in blood pressure control: potential explanatory factors

The Costs of Newborn Care in California: A Population-Based Study

Effect of Geriatrics Evaluation and Management on Nursing Home Use and Health Care Costs: Results From a Randomized Trial

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (Vol. 3: Hypertension Care)

Are Certain Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial Structures Misleading Clinical and Policy Decisions?

QuantiFERON-TB Predicts Tuberculin Skin Test Boosting in U.S. Foreign-Born

Design of the VA/NIH Acute Renal Failure Trial Network (ATN) Study: Intensive Versus Conventional Renal Support in Acute Renal Failure

Consequences of health trends and medical innovation for the future elderly

Underutilization of aspirin persists in US ambulatory care for the secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular disease

Marriage form and age at first marriage: a comparative study in three counties in contemporary rural China.

Marriage form and age at first marriage: A comparative study in three counties in contemporary rural China

Communities of Practice in Quality Improvement

Improved Allocation of HIV Prevention Resources: Using Information About Prevention Program Production Functions

Childhood Abuse and Welfare Use

Welfare-enhancing technological change and the growth of obesity

Determinants of Influenza Vaccination Timing

Preventing Childhood Obesity: A Solution-Oriented Research Paradigm

The Impact of Patient Self-Testing of Prothrombin Time for Managing Anticoagulation: Rationale and Design of VA Cooperative Study #481 -- The Home INR Study (THINRS)