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

Nurse Credentials: What Is the Economic Value?

Spetz J

Nurs Econ 2014 Sep

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

Supine craniospinal irradiation using a proton pencil beam scanning technique without match line changes for field junctions.

Lin H, Ding X, Kirk M, Liu H, Zhai H, Hill-Kayser CE, Lustig RA, Tochner Z, Both S, McDonough J

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2014 Sep doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.05.029

Invalid controls undermine conclusions of FDA studies.

Hunt PA, VandeVoort C, Woodruff T, Gerona R

Toxicol Sci 2014 Sep doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfu179

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

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

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

Patient, surgeon, and healthcare purchaser views on the use of decision and communication aids in orthopaedic surgery: a mixed methods study.

By: Bozic KJ, Chenok KE, Schindel J, Chan V, Huddleston JI 3rd, Braddock C 3rd, Belkora J

BMC Health Serv Res 2014 Aug doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-366

Recommendations of the Alzheimer's disease-related dementias conference.

Montine TJ, Koroshetz WJ, Babcock D, Dickson DW, Galpern WR, Glymour MM, Greenberg SM, Hutton ML, Knopman DS, Kuzmichev AN, Manly JJ, Marder KS, Miller BL, Phelps CH, Seeley WW, Sieber BA, Silverberg NB, Sutherland M, Torborg CL, Waddy SP, Zlokovic BV, Corriveau RA, ADRD 2013 Conference Organizing Committee.

Neurology 2014 Aug doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000733