Douglas Owens

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Director, Fellowship in Health Care Research and Health Policy, Stanford University (1994 - present)
• Director, Program on Clinical Decision Making and Guideline Development, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University (1997 - present)
• Director, VA Informatics Fellowship Program, VA Palo Alto and Stanford University (1994 - present)
• Director, VA Physician Post-Residency Fellowship in Health Services Research, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford (2006 - present)
• Director, Stanford-UCSF Evidenced Based Practice Center, Stanford University (2002 - present)

Postdoctoral Advisees

Nayer Khazeni, Jennifer Schneider, Crystal Smith-Spangler

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Health Research and Policy

Web Site Links

• CHP/PCOR site

Industry Relationships

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Research Interests

Our research concerns health policy, clinical policy, and the development of analytic methods for evaluating policy questions. I am particularly interested in technology assessment and the application of decision theory to clinical/health policy problems. My group has a special interest in questions related to disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and cardiovascular disease. We also perform systematic reviews on a variety of topics as part of the Stanford-UCSF Evidenced Based Practice Center, which I direct. I am also developing methods for producing normative, model-based practice and screening guidelines.

Publications

• Screening for HIV in health care settings: a guidance statement from the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association. Qaseem A, Snow V, Shekelle P, Hopkins R, Owens DK. Ann Intern Med. 2009; 150 (2): 125-31
• Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Imaging Strategies for the Diagnosis of Small-bowel Crohn's Disease. Levesque BG, Cipriano LE, Chang SL, Lee KK, Owens DK, Garber AM. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009
• Health-related quality of life in a randomized trial of antiretroviral therapy for advanced HIV disease. Joyce VR, Barnett PG, Bayoumi AM, Griffin SC, Kyriakides TC, Yu W, Sundaram V, Holodniy M, Brown ST, Cameron W, Youle M, Sculpher M, Anis AH, Owens DK. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2009; 50 (1): 27-36
• Coronary artery bypass surgery compared with percutaneous coronary interventions for multivessel disease: a collaborative analysis of individual patient data from ten randomised trials. Hlatky MA, Boothroyd DB, Bravata DM, Boersma E, Booth J, Brooks MM, Carrié D, Clayton TC, Danchin N, Flather M, Hamm CW, Hueb WA, Kähler J, Kelsey SF, King SB, Kosinski AS, Lopes N, McDonald KM, Rodriguez A, Serruys P, Sigwart U, Stables RH, Owens DK, Pocock SJ. Lancet. 2009; 373 (9670): 1190-7
• Interventional therapies, surgery, and interdisciplinary rehabilitation for low back pain: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline from the American Pain Society. Chou R, Loeser JD, Owens DK, Rosenquist RW, Atlas SJ, Baisden J, Carragee EJ, Grabois M, Murphy DR, Resnick DK, Stanos SP, Shaffer WO, Wall EM. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2009; 34 (10): 1066-77