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

Modernizing the World Health Organization List of Essential Medicines for Preventing and Controlling Cardiovascular Diseases.

Kishore SP, Blank E, Heller DJ, Patel A, Peters A, Price M, Vidula M, Fuster V, Onuma O, Huffman MD, Vedanthan R

J Am Coll Cardiol 2018 Feb doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.11.056

Cost-effectiveness of liraglutide versus lixisenatide as add-on therapies to basal insulin in type 2 diabetes.

Ericsson Å, Glah D, Lorenzi M, Jansen JP, Fridhammar A

PLoS One 2018 Feb doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191953

Rising utilization of inpatient pediatric asthma pathways.

Kaiser SV, Rodean J, Bekmezian A, Hall M, Shah SS, Mahant S, Parikh K, Morse R, Puls H, Cabana MD, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network.

J Asthma 2018 Feb doi: 10.1080/02770903.2017.1316392

The Experience of Hospital Death: Assessing the Quality of Care at an Academic Medical Center.

Carey EC, Dose AM, Humeniuk KM, Kuan YC, Hicks AD, Ottenberg AL, Tilburt JC, Koenig B

Am J Hosp Palliat Care 2018 Feb doi: 10.1177/1049909116689547

Discordance of the Framingham cardiovascular risk score and the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association risk score in systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis.

Jafri K, Ogdie A, Qasim A, Patterson SL, Gianfrancesco M, Izadi Z, Katz P, Yazdany J, Schmajuk G

Clin Rheumatol 2018 Feb doi: 10.1007/s10067-017-3860-x

Association of Patient Frailty With Increased Morbidity After Common Ambulatory General Surgery Operations.

Seib CD, Rochefort H, Chomsky-Higgins K, Gosnell JE, Suh I, Shen WT, Duh QY, Finlayson E

JAMA Surg 2018 Feb doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.4007

Homing in on the Social: System-Level Influences on Overly Aggressive Treatments at the End of Life.

Dzeng E, Dohan D, Curtis JR, Smith TJ, Colaianni A, Ritchie CS

J Pain Symptom Manage 2018 Feb doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.08.019

The impact of smoking on disease measures in rheumatoid arthritis: the need for appropriate adjustment of time-varying confounding.

Gianfrancesco MA, Yazdany J, Schmajuk G

Rheumatol Int 2018 Feb doi: 10.1007/s00296-017-3902-3

Hospital Standards to Promote Optimal Surgical Care of the Older Adult: A Report From the Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery.

Berian JR, Rosenthal RA, Baker TL, Coleman J, Finlayson E, Katlic MR, Lagoo-Deenadayalan SA, Tang VL, Robinson TN, Ko CY, Russell MM

Ann Surg 2018 Feb doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002185

Nurses' Communication of Safety Events to Nursing Home Residents and Families.

Wagner LM, Driscoll L, Darlington JL, Flores V, Kim J, Melino K, Patel HD, Spetz J

J Gerontol Nurs 2018 Feb doi: 10.3928/00989134-20171002-01