Department of Health Care Policy

Established in 1988, the department of health care policy’s mission is to improve the health of the public through comprehensive health policy research.

News

Dr. Sharon-Lise Normand presents on a new approach to risk adjustment for surgical centers, at STS 2025.
| January 30, 2025

Enhancing Patient Outcomes: A New Approach to Risk Adjustment and Center Performance Evaluation

At a Society of Thoracic Surgeons conference (STS 2025), Dr. Sharon-Lise Normand (HCP) presents on how modern causal inference techniques can improve the assessment of surgery centers.

Enhancing Patient Outcomes: A New Approach to Risk Adjustment and Center Performance Evaluation
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A Growing Option for Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents

Understanding the Availability, Growth, and Characteristics of Institutional Special Needs Plans
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The Accuracy of Administrative NIHSS Scores in Assessing Stroke Severity

Administrative Data as a Reliable Proxy for Clinical Stroke Severity

Publications

Care Costs More in Consolidated Health Systems

JAMA Network

Beaulieu ND, Chernew ME, McWilliams JM, Landrum MB

The Hidden Cost of Firearm Injuries

Annals of Internal Medicine

Song Z, Zubizarreta JR, Giuriato M, Paulos E, Koh KA

The Cost of Emerging Oncology Treatments

JAMA Network Open

Kyle MA, Dusetzina SB, Keating NL

Association Between Endoscopist Personality and Rate of Adenoma Detection.

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Ezaz G, Leffler DA, Beach S, Schoen RE, Crockett SD, Gourevitch RA, Rose S, Morris M, Carrell DS, Greer JB, Mehrotra A. 

Genome-wide analyses of psychological resilience in U.S. Army soldiers.

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 

Stein MB, Choi KW, Jain S, Campbell-Sills L, Chen CY, Gelernter J, He F, Heeringa SG, Maihofer AX, Nievergelt C, Nock MK, Ripke S, Sun X, Kessler RC, Smoller JW, Ursano RJ. 

Mandatory public reporting of cardiac surgery outcomes: The 2003 to 2014 Massac…

Journal of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery

Shahian DM, Torchiana DF, Engelman DT, Sundt TM 3rd, D'Agostino RS, Lovett AF, Cioffi MJ, Rawn JD, Birjiniuk V, Habib RH, Normand ST. 

Depression: more treatment but no drop in prevalence: how effective is treatmen…

Current Opinion in Psychiatry 

Ormel J, Kessler RC, Schoevers R.