Health Services Research

Health services research (HSR) examines how people get access to doctors and healthcare services, how much care costs and what happens to patients as a result of this care. Studies in HSR also investigate how social factors, finances, organizational structures and processes, medical technology, and personal behaviors affect access.

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Publications

DASH for asthma: a pilot study of the DASH diet in not-well-controlled adult asthma.

Expressing uncertainty in clinical interactions between physicians and older patients: what matters?

How do primary care physicians respond when patients cry during routine ambulatory visits?

Overcoming challenges to adoption of shared medical appointments.

Translating an evidence-based lifestyle intervention program into primary care: lessons learned.

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Research Studies

Implementing Universal Lynch Syndrome Screening Across Multiple Healthcare Systems: Identifying Strategies to Facilitate and Maintain Programs in Different Organizations Contexts

Improving Cancer Care

Improving Patient-Centered Communication in Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the Comparative Effectiveness of Three Interventions

Multilevel Study of Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines Implementation (MUST)

Severe Mental Illness and Patterns of Emergency Department Utilization

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Featured Investigator

Sandra Wilson

Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Sandra Reitz Wilson, Ph.D., is Senior Scientist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s Research Institute & Adjunct Stanford Clinical Professor of Medicine.

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