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

Acute toxicity profile of patients with low-grade gliomas and meningiomas receiving proton therapy.

Maquilan G, Grover S, Alonso-Basanta M, Lustig RA

Am J Clin Oncol 2014 Oct doi: 10.1097/COC.0b013e31827de86b

Treatment patterns and outcomes for patients with adrenocortical carcinoma associated with hospital case volume in the United States.

Gratian L, Pura J, Dinan M, Reed S, Scheri R, Roman S, Sosa JA

Ann Surg Oncol 2014 Oct doi: 10.1245/s10434-014-3931-z

Self-reported pigmentary phenotypes and race are significant but incomplete predictors of Fitzpatrick skin phototype in an ethnically diverse population.

He SY, McCulloch CE, Boscardin WJ, Chren MM, Linos E, Arron ST

J Am Acad Dermatol 2014 Oct doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2014.05.023

Using Medicare data to understand low-value health care: the case of intra-articular hyaluronic acid injections.

Schmajuk G, Bozic KJ, Yazdany J

JAMA Intern Med 2014 Oct doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.3926

Thirty-day hospital readmissions in systemic lupus erythematosus: predictors and hospital- and state-level variation.

Yazdany J, Marafino BJ, Dean ML, Bardach NS, Duseja R, Ward MM, Dudley RA

Arthritis Rheumatol 2014 Oct doi: 10.1002/art.38768

Fighting the "oculostenotic reflex".

Lin GA, Dudley RA

JAMA Intern Med 2014 Oct doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.164

A variation in the value of colectomy for cancer across hospitals: mortality, readmissions, and costs.

Fox JP, Tyler JA, Vashi AA, Hsia RY, Saxe JM

Surgery 2014 Oct doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2014.06.011

Social integration and mortality in patients with coronary heart disease: findings from the Heart and Soul Study.

Kreibig SD, Whooley MA, Gross JJ

Psychosom Med 2014 Oct doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000100

Individualizing life expectancy estimates for older adults using the Gompertz Law of Human Mortality.

Lee SJ, Boscardin WJ, Kirby KA, Covinsky KE

PLoS One 2014 Sep doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108540

Early retinal neurodegeneration and impaired Ran-mediated nuclear import of TDP-43 in progranulin-deficient FTLD.

Ward ME, Taubes A, Chen R, Miller BL, Sephton CF, Gelfand JM, Minami S, Boscardin J, Martens LH, Seeley WW, Yu G, Herz J, Filiano AJ, Arrant AE, Roberson ED, Kraft TW, Farese RV Jr, Green A, Gan L

J Exp Med 2014 Sep doi: 10.1084/jem.20140214