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Scholarly Publications
Anesthesia Care Team Composition and Surgical Outcomes
August 2018
The adjusted mortality for care teams with anesthesiologist assistants was 1.6% (95% CI, 1.4 to 1.8) versus 1.7% for care teams with nurse anesthetists (95% CI, 1.7 to 1.7; difference −0.08; 95% CI...
Poverty and Community-Acquired Antimicrobial Resistance with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Organisms, Hyderabad, India
August 2018
The decreasing effectiveness of antimicrobial agents is a global public health threat, yet risk factors for community-acquired antimicrobial resistance (CA-AMR) in low-income settings have not been...
ACA Marketplace Premiums and Competition Among Hospitals and Physician Practices
July 2018
In this study published in the American Journal of Managed Care, the authors found that premiums for ACA Marketplace plans were higher in rating areas in which physician, hospital, and insurance...
Other Publications
Medical Liability — Prospects for Federal Reform
March 2017
Medical malpractice reform appears to be back on the federal policy agenda.
Shifting Vaccination Politics — The End of Personal-Belief Exemptions in California
July 2015
Stanford Health Policy's David Studdert and Michelle Mello discuss SB 277, a new California law that ends exceptions to vaccination mandates based on religious and philosophical beliefs, leaving...
Half-Baked — The Retail Promotion of Marijuana Edibles
March 2015
FSI Fellow Robert MacCoun and co-author Michelle Mello argue for regulation of marijana-infused edible products.
News
Study Finds Transitional Care Services Cost-Effective After Hospitalization for Heart Failure in Elderly
January 2020
Elderly patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure have a poor prognosis and high risk of death and hospital readmission.
Karen Eggleston on Coronavirus Outbreak and Health Policy Implications
January 2020
Updated January 24Millions of residents in China are under lockdown measures as the number of reported deaths from the coronavirus outbreak rises to 26.
Stanford Researchers Uncover the Silent Cost of School Shootings
December 2019
At least 245 primary and secondary schools in the United States have experienced a shooting — killing 146 people and injuring 310 — since the country's first mass school shooting at Columbine High...
Events
Fernando Alarid-Escudero - Seminar: Modeling Gastric Cancer Into The 21st Century
February 10, 2020
Title: Modeling Gastric Cancer Into The 21st Century Dr.
Research in Progress: Amol Navathe
January 27, 2020
Research In Progress Amol Navathe, MD, PhDAssisstant Professor of Health Policy & Medicine Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics - University of Pennsylvania Amol Navathe, is an...
Research in Progress: Natural Experiments in Health Care with Anupam B. Jena
September 20, 2018
Natural Experiments in Health CareAnupam B. Jena, MD, PhDRuth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical SchoolAnupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, is the Ruth L.
Projects
Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging
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Physician Response to Productivity Incentives
There has been much policy debate about paying physicians by salary or compensating them for the work that they do.
English
Automated performance metrics for quality improvement in complex chronic disease
As the population of older adults in the US increases, there is a growing need for performance measurement systems that take multiple comorbid conditions into account.
English
Multimedia
Grant Miller: The team approach to international heatlh
January 2016
Grant Miller, associate professor of medicine, has been working to help residents of a state in India access micro nutrients that they are lacking.
People
Stefanos A. Zenios Professor, Operations, Information and Technology, Professor, Health Care Management