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Health Care
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
The Dedicated VAT Solution
August 2010
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, co-chaired by former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Senate Whip AlanSimpson, faces two over...
News
Rhode Island adopts regulations to slow health-care costs — and they appear to work
February 2019
As the price of health care in the United States continues to accelerate — to the consternation of both patients and providers — it’s refreshing to find one state pilot project that appears to...
Choice of Medicare drug plan reduces opioid use
December 2018
New research by a trio of Stanford scholars shows how different insurance strategies affect the volume of opioid use and could help stem inappropriate prescribing behaviors.
A glimmer of hope in the opioid epidemic among patients with musculoskeletal pain
December 2018
In new research by Health Research and Policy’s Eric Sun, the risk for chronic opioid use among patients with musculoskeletal pain actually decreased slightly between 2008 and 2014.
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: 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...
RIP: Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland with Marcella Alsan
August 8, 2018
Does Diversity Matter for Health?
Projects
Guatemala Rural Child Health and Nutrition Program
The primary goal of the Guatemala Rural Child Health and Nutrition Program is to use the capacities of Stanford University to save young children’s lives in Guatemala and other areas of the world...
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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.
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Smart Agents to Reduce the Parent Health Literacy Burden in the Care of the Children with Medical Complexity
(Partner: Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Science) This inter-disciplinary project addresses two formidable health care realities: the growing number of patients with chronic...
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People
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