Publications | UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

The Promise of Proton Therapy for Central Nervous System Malignancies.

Vogel J, Carmona R, Ainsley CG, Lustig RA

Neurosurgery 2019 May doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyy454

The Association Between Race and Frailty in Older Adults Presenting to a Nononcologic Urology Practice.

Washington SL 3rd, Porten SP, Quanstrom K, Jin C, Bridge M, Finlayson E, Walter LC, Suskind AM

Urology 2019 May doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2019.02.024

The Impact of Block Ambulatory Scheduling on Internal Medicine Residencies: a Systematic Review.

DeWaters AL, Loria H, Mayo H, Chisty A, Nguyen OK

J Gen Intern Med 2019 May doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-04887-x

Bringing Social Context into Diabetes Care: Intervening on Social Risks versus Providing Contextualized Care.

Hessler D, Bowyer V, Gold R, Shields-Zeeman L, Cottrell E, Gottlieb LM

Curr Diab Rep 2019 Apr doi: 10.1007/s11892-019-1149-y

Conformal Radiation Therapy for Pediatric Ependymoma, Chemotherapy for Incompletely Resected Ependymoma, and Observation for Completely Resected, Supratentorial Ependymoma.

Merchant TE, Bendel AE, Sabin ND, Burger PC, Shaw DW, Chang E, Wu S, Zhou T, Eisenstat DD, Foreman NK, Fuller CE, Anderson ET, Hukin J, Lau CC, Pollack IF, Laningham FH, Lustig RH, Armstrong FD, Handler MH, Williams-Hughes C, Kessel S, Kocak M, Ellison DW, Ramaswamy V

J Clin Oncol 2019 Apr doi: 10.1200/JCO.18.01765

Visit-to-visit fasting plasma glucose variability is an important risk factor for long-term changes in left cardiac structure and function in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Tang X, Zhong J, Zhang H, Luo Y, Liu X, Peng L, Zhang Y, Qian X, Jiang B, Liu J, Li S, Chen Y

Cardiovasc Diabetol 2019 Apr doi: 10.1186/s12933-019-0854-9

Moonstone: a novel natural language processing system for inferring social risk from clinical narratives.

Conway M, Keyhani S, Christensen L, South BR, Vali M, Walter LC, Mowery DL, Abdelrahman S, Chapman WW

J Biomed Semantics 2019 Apr doi: 10.1186/s13326-019-0198-0

The association of county-level socioeconomic factors with individual tobacco and alcohol use: a longitudinal study of U.S. adults.

Hamad R, Brown DM, Basu S

BMC Public Health 2019 Apr doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6700-x

Differences in Longitudinal Disease Activity Between Research Cohort and Noncohort Participants with Rheumatoid Arthritis Using Electronic Health Record Data.

Gianfrancesco MA, Trupin L, McCulloch CE, Shiboski S, Schmajuk G, Yazdany J