Research

Schaeffer Center experts and others follow participants into late midlife as well as their children into adulthood to study the impacts of early childhood education programs.

A new white paper published by the USC Schaeffer Center focuses on multi-cancer, early detection, (MCED) blood-based tests as one solution to reduce disparities in late-stage cancer diagnosis among minority populations.

A new Schaeffer Center white paper finds that vaccine mandates for employees and students is an effective policy solution to ensure the U.S. reaches herd immunity and avoids future outbreaks.

A new Schaeffer Center study comparing Medicare Part D prescription drug prices with those paid by Costco members finds that the federal government overpaid on roughly half of the most common generic medicines in 2018.

To understand the net effects of shelter-in-place (SIP) policies, the researchers measure the change in excess deaths following the implementation of SIP policies in 43 countries and all U.S. states.

Schaeffer Center researchers identified high-risk initial prescriptions, defined as >7 days’ supply, average daily MME >90, or concurrent with benzodiazepines and estimated three multivariable logistic regression models to assess the association between policies and outcomes controlling for patient, prescriber, and county characteristics.

The researchers focus their modeling framework on the risk factors age, comorbidities, obesity, and smoking status as these demographic and medical conditions have consistently been identified across various studies as factors inducing the probability of progressing to severe illness given COVID-19 infection

This study compares payments for common outpatient anesthesiology services by commercial health plans, Medicare Advantage (MA), and traditional Medicare.