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

A randomized trial of misoprostol versus laminaria before dilation and evacuation in South Africa.

Grossman D, Constant D, Lince-Deroche N, Harries J, Kluge J

Contraception 2014 Sep doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2014.05.003

Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: an over-treated malignancy?

Wang TS, Goffredo P, Sosa JA, Roman SA

World J Surg 2014 Sep doi: 10.1007/s00268-014-2602-3

Impact of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program on cervical cancer mortality among uninsured low-income women in the U.S., 1991-2007.

Ekwueme DU, Uzunangelov VJ, Hoerger TJ, Miller JW, Saraiya M, Benard VB, Hall IJ, Royalty J, Li C, Myers ER

Am J Prev Med 2014 Sep doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.05.016

Update on health literacy and diabetes.

Bailey SC, Brega AG, Crutchfield TM, Elasy T, Herr H, Kaphingst K, Karter AJ, Moreland-Russell S, Osborn CY, Pignone M, Rothman R, Schillinger D

Diabetes Educ 2014 Sep doi: 10.1177/0145721714540220

Multi-tiered genomic analysis of head and neck cancer ties TP53 mutation to 3p loss.

Gross AM, Orosco RK, Shen JP, Egloff AM, Carter H, Hofree M, Choueiri M, Coffey CS, Lippman SM, Hayes DN, Cohen EE, Grandis JR, Nguyen QT, Ideker T

Nat Genet 2014 Sep doi: 10.1038/ng.3051

The Michigan Incontinence Symptom Index (M-ISI): a clinical measure for type, severity, and bother related to urinary incontinence.

Suskind AM, Dunn RL, Morgan DM, DeLancey JO, McGuire EJ, Wei JT

Neurourol Urodyn 2014 Sep doi: 10.1002/nau.22468

Socioeconomic status and asthma control in African American youth in SAGE II.

Thakur N, Martin M, Castellanos E, Oh SS, Roth LA, Eng C, Brigino-Buenaventura E, Davis A, Meade K, LeNoir MA, Farber HJ, Thyne S, Sen S, Bibbins-Domingo K, Borrell LN, Burchard EG

J Asthma 2014 Sep doi: 10.3109/02770903.2014.905593

N-gram support vector machines for scalable procedure and diagnosis classification, with applications to clinical free text data from the intensive care unit.

By: Marafino BJ, Davies JM, Bardach NS, Dean ML, Dudley RA

J Am Med Inform Assoc 2014 Sep doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002694

Treatment adherence and competency ratings among therapists, supervisors, study-related raters and external raters in a clinical trial of a 12-step facilitation for stimulant users.

Peavy KM, Guydish J, Manuel JK, Campbell BK, Lisha N, Le T, Delucchi K, Garrett S

J Subst Abuse Treat 2014 Sep doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2014.05.008

Despite substantial progress In EHR adoption, health information exchange and patient engagement remain low in office settings.

By: Furukawa MF, King J, Patel V, Hsiao CJ, Adler-Milstein J, Jha AK

Health Aff (Millwood) 2014 Sep doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0445