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

Do patients use decision and communication aids as prompted when meeting with breast cancer specialists?

By: Volz S, Moore DH, Belkora JK

Health Expect 2015 Jun doi: 10.1111/hex.12042

Cost Effectiveness of Sequencing 34 Cancer-Associated Genes as an Aid for Treatment Selection in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma.

Li Y, Bare LA, Bender RA, Sninsky JJ, Wilson LS, Devlin JJ, Waldman FM

Mol Diagn Ther 2015 Jun doi: 10.1007/s40291-015-0140-9

Cost per remission and cost per response with infliximab, adalimumab, and golimumab for the treatment of moderately-to-severely active ulcerative colitis.

Toor K, Druyts E, Jansen JP, Thorlund K

J Med Econ 2015 Jun doi: 10.3111/13696998.2015.1012513

Coverage for high-cost specialty drugs for rheumatoid arthritis in Medicare Part D.

Yazdany J, Dudley RA, Chen R, Lin GA, Tseng CW

Arthritis Rheumatol 2015 Jun doi: 10.1002/art.39079

Obesity and bronchodilator response in black and Hispanic children and adolescents with asthma.

McGarry ME, Castellanos E, Thakur N, Oh SS, Eng C, Davis A, Meade K, LeNoir MA, Avila PC, Farber HJ, Serebrisky D, Brigino-Buenaventura E, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Kumar R, Bibbins-Domingo K, Thyne SM, Sen S, Rodriguez-Santana JR, Borrell LN, Burchard EG

Chest 2015 Jun doi: 10.1378/chest.14-2689

Understanding the diffusion of ambulatory surgery centers.

Suskind AM, Zhang Y, Dunn RL, Hollingsworth JM, Strope SA, Hollenbeck BK

Surg Innov 2015 Jun doi: 10.1177/1553350614546004

How many nurse practitioners provide primary care? It depends on how you count them.

Spetz J, Fraher E, Li Y, Bates T

Med Care Res Rev 2015 Jun doi: 10.1177/1077558715579868

Treatment escalation in the intensive care unit among patients with preexisting treatment limitations: best-laid plans gone awry?

Barnato AE, Dzeng E

JAMA Intern Med 2015 Jun doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.0378

The facts are clear.

Schroeder S, Guydish J