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

Change in Policy Allowing Overlapping Surgery Decreases Length of Stay in an Academic, Safety-Net Hospital.

DiGiorgio AM, Mummaneni PV, Fisher JL, Podet AG, Crutcher CL, Virk MS, Fang Z, Wilson JD, Tender GC, Culicchia F

Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown) 2019 Dec doi: 10.1093/ons/opz009

Health information exchange between hospital and skilled nursing facilities not associated with lower readmissions.

By: Cross DA, McCullough JS, Banaszak-Holl J, Adler-Milstein J

Health Serv Res 2019 Dec doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13210

Analysis of Computed Tomography Radiation Doses Used for Lung Cancer Screening Scans.

Demb J, Chu P, Yu S, Whitebird R, Solberg L, Miglioretti DL, Smith-Bindman R

JAMA Intern Med 2019 Dec doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.3893

Tumor bed proton irradiation in young children with localized medulloblastoma.

Grewal AS, Li Y, Fisher MJ, Minturn J, Paltin I, Belasco J, Phillips P, Kang T, Lustig RA, Hill-Kayser C

Pediatr Blood Cancer 2019 Dec doi: 10.1002/pbc.27972

Brief English and Spanish Survey Detects Change in Response to Advance Care Planning Interventions.

Shi Y, Barnes DE, Boscardin J, You JJ, Heyland DK, Volow AM, Howard M, Sudore RL

J Pain Symptom Manage 2019 Dec doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.09.004

Genetic and environmental risk factors in the non-medical use of over-the-counter or prescribed analgesics, and their relationship to major classes of licit and illicit substance use and misuse in a population-based sample of young adult twins.

Gillespie NA, Bates TC, Hickie IB, Medland SE, Verhulst B, Kirkpatrick RM, Kendler KS, Martin NG, Benotsch EG

Addiction 2019 Dec doi: 10.1111/add.14750

Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease in US Young Adults: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.

Nagata JM, Palar K, Gooding HC, Garber AK, Bibbins-Domingo K, Weiser SD

J Gen Intern Med 2019 Dec doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05317-8

Identifying and Prioritizing Chemicals with Uncertain Burden of Exposure: Opportunities for Biomonitoring and Health-Related Research.

Pellizzari ED, Woodruff TJ, Boyles RR, Kannan K, Beamer PI, Buckley JP, Wang A, Zhu Y, Bennett DH, (Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes).

Environ Health Perspect 2019 Dec doi: 10.1289/EHP5133

A meta-analysis approach for estimating average unit costs for ART using pooled facility-level primary data from African countries.

Cerecero-García D, Pineda-Antunez C, Alexander L, Cameron D, Martinez-Silva G, Obure CD, Marseille E, Vu L, Kahn JG, Vassall A, Gomez G, Bollinger L, Levin C, Bautista-Arredondo S

Afr J AIDS Res 2019 Dec doi: 10.2989/16085906.2019.1688362

Lesion-Based Evaluation Predicts Treatment Response to Lenvatinib for Radioactive Iodine-Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A Korean Multicenter Retrospective Study.

Lee EK, Kim SM, Kim BH, Kim MJ, Lim DJ, Kim MH, Shin DY, Kang HC, Ahn BC, Kim SW, Ahn HY, Park YJ

Thyroid 2019 Dec doi: 10.1089/thy.2019.0022