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

Adherence to Medication

New England Journal of Medicine, 2005

Health insurance and the obesity externality

NBER Working Paper, 2005

Journal Articles

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward prediction

Current Opinion in Neurology, 2005

Journal Articles

An Empirical Assessment of High Performing Physician Organizations: Results from a National Study

Med Care Res Rev, 2005

Journal Articles

Health Care Expenditures Reexamined

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2005

Journal Articles

Health-related quality of life in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review

Thorax, 2005

Journal Articles

Preliminary evaluation of a visual analog function scale for use in rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology, 2005

Journal Articles

Intergenerational Health Disparities: Socioeconomic Status, Women's Health Conditions, and Child Behavior Problems

Public Health Reports, 2005

Newsletters

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, summer 2005 issue

CHP/PCOR, 2005

Journal Articles

Accuracy of Transbronchial Needle Aspiration for Mediastinal Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Thorax, 2005

Journal Articles

Quality of US Outpatient Care: Temporal Changes and Racial/Ethnic Disparities

Archives of Internal Medicine, 2005

Journal Articles

Challenges in Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Topics Related to the Delivery, Organization, and Financing of Health Care

Annals of Internal Medicine, supplement on "Challenges of Summarizing Better Information for Better Health", 2005

Journal Articles

Work limitations among working persons with rheumatoid arthritis: results, reliability, and validity of the work limitations questionnaire in 836 patients

Journal of Rheumatology, 2005

Journal Articles

Cost-Effectiveness of Defending against Bioterrorism: A Comparison of Vaccination and Antibiotic Prophylaxis against Anthrax

Annals of Internal Medicine, 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

Adherence to Medication

Health insurance and the obesity externality

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward prediction

An Empirical Assessment of High Performing Physician Organizations: Results from a National Study

Health Care Expenditures Reexamined

Health-related quality of life in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review

Preliminary evaluation of a visual analog function scale for use in rheumatoid arthritis

Intergenerational Health Disparities: Socioeconomic Status, Women's Health Conditions, and Child Behavior Problems

CHP/PCOR Quarterly Update, summer 2005 issue

Accuracy of Transbronchial Needle Aspiration for Mediastinal Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Quality of US Outpatient Care: Temporal Changes and Racial/Ethnic Disparities

Challenges in Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Topics Related to the Delivery, Organization, and Financing of Health Care

Work limitations among working persons with rheumatoid arthritis: results, reliability, and validity of the work limitations questionnaire in 836 patients

Male involvement in cardiovascular preventive healthcare in two rural Costa Rican communities

Lost Boys of Sudan: Functional and Behavioral Health of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Resettled in the United States, The

Free nicotine replacement therapy programs vs implementing smoke-free workplaces: a cost-effectiveness comparison

Post-fielding Surveillance of a Guideline-based Decision Support System

Employment outcomes and PTSD symptom severity

Assessing the benefits and costs of new therapies for hepatitis B virus infection

Distributed neural representation of expected value

Lessons in safety climate and safety practices from a California hospital consortium

U.S. adolescents receive suboptimal preventive counseling during ambulatory care

National trends in statin use by coronary heart disease risk category

Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity

Cost-Effectiveness of Defending against Bioterrorism: A Comparison of Vaccination and Antibiotic Prophylaxis against Anthrax