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Health policy
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
Poor, Older Americans Healthier If They Live in More Affluent Communities
September 2019
New research by Maria Polyakova shows that older, low-income Americans tend to be healthier if they live in more affluent areas of the country.
Stanford Legal Experts on the Oklahoma Opioids Verdict and Ongoing Litigation
August 2019
On August 26, Judge Thad Balkman delivered a $572 million judgment against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson for the company’s role in fueling the opioid epidemic in Oklahoma.
All Adults Should Be Tested for Hepatitis C; It Now Kills More Americans Than All Other Reportable Infectious Diseases Combined
August 2019
A task force of national health experts has released a draft recommendation to screen all adults 18 to 79 years for the hepatitis C virus (HCV), noting the opioid epidemic has fueled what has...
Events
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.
Research in Progress: User-Generated Ratings in Healthcare-Evidence from Yelp with Yiwei Chen
August 28, 2018
User-Generated Ratings in Healthcare-Evidence from YelpYiwei ChenAdvisor: Kate BundorfAbstract: It is controversial whether user-generated physician ratings from online sources improve healthcare...
Research in Progress: The Roots of Health Inequality: The Value of Intra-Family Information with Maria Polyakova
August 24, 2018
The Roots of Health Inequality: The Value of Intra-Family InformationMaria Polyakova, PhDAssistant Professor of Health Research and PolicyMaria Polyakova, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health...
Projects
Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging
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English
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
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