Research at CHP/PCOR

CHP/PCOR investigators conduct rigorous, multidisciplinary research on a wide variety of topics, including patient safety, clinical practice guidelines, bioterrorism, global infectious diseases, healthcare financing and delivery, and the cost-effectiveness of new medical technologies. The center's current research projects and programs are listed below.

CHP/PCOR Programs & Research Areas

Center on Advancing Decision Making in Aging (CADMA)
The Center on Advancing Decision Making for Aging (CADMA) at Stanford conducts and promotes research that explores how older Americans make decisions regarding their health and well-being, with the goal of developing and implementing practical methods that will help them make informed, effective decisions.

» Affective Forecasting and Decision Making in Older Adults

» Age Differences in Emotional and Cognitive Decision-Making

» Age Differences in the Processing of Health Care Information

» Age, Affect Valuation, and Health-Related Decision-Making

» Benefits and Costs of Health Insurance Choice among Older Adults: The Case of Medicare Prescription Drug Plans

» Choosing not to choose: Ambiguity aversion in younger and older adults

» Incorporating Health Preferences of Older Adults into the Electronic Medical Record

» Risk Taking and Financial Decision Making in Older Adults

Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging (CDEHA)
CDEHA brings together researchers from throughout Stanford to study trends in demography, economics, healthcare delivery and health outcomes as they relate to the well-being of the elderly.

» Affective Forecasting Across the Lifespan

» Effects of Obesity on Employer-sponsored Health Insurance

» Elder Care, Gender, and Son Preference: The Role of Cultural Transmission and Diffusion During the Process of Rural-urban Migration in China

» Health Insurance and Well-Being among the Elderly in Colombia

» Increasing Physical Activity Among the Elderly: A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Pedometers

» National Trends and Practice Patterns of Detection and Treatment of Hypertension During Ambulatory Visits in the United States

International Activities at CHP/PCOR
CHP/PCOR's faculty, affiliates and visiting scholars conduct a variety of research that analyzes and compares healthcare practices, policies, utilization rates, socioeconomic characteristics, costs and outcomes in countries around the world.

» Global Analysis of Technological Change in Health Care (TECH)

» Global Healthcare Productivity Project (GHP)

Patient Safety Research Group
The Patient Safety Research Group aims to improve patient safety, safety culture, and outcomes in health care by developing national evidence on the relationship between market and organizational characteristics, organizational safety culture, and patient safety.

» Improving Safety Culture and Outcomes in Health Care

Stanford University/University of California, San Francisco Evidence-based Practice Center
The Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center provides an infrastructure and focal point for conducting high-quality systematic literature reviews, supplemental syntheses and technology assessments, and generating evidence reports from these efforts.

Research Projects

» Analysis of Patient Safety Practices

» Assessment and Treatment of Hypertension: Evidence-Based Automation (ATHENA)

» Biosurveillance System for Advanced Medical Readiness

» Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response: Use of Information Technologies and Decision Support Systems

» Causes and Consequences of Indoor Air Pollution: An Experimental Investigation in Bangladesh

» Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies

» Developing Best Practices for Patient Safety

» Equitable, Efficient and Sustainable Medicare for the 21st Century

» F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging in the Management of Patients with Solitary Pulmonary Nodules: An Economic Sub-study

» Functional Life and Independence Research (FLAIR project)

» Group Visits to Improve Hypertension Management

» Hospital Quality Improvement Structures and Practices

» Intelligent Critiquing of Clinical-Guideline Application

» Internet Use and Health Care for Persons with Chronic Health Conditions

» Managed Care and Health Care Markets

» Pediatric Quality Indicators

» Policy Modeling for AIDS and Drug Abuse

» Postdoctoral Training in Health Services Research

» Regional Models for Bioterrorism Preparedness

» Support for Quality Indicators

» Trends in Cancer Mortality and Expenditures among Medicare Beneficiaries

» VISN Collaborative for Improving Hypertension Management with ATHENA-HTN