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Harold S. Luft publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Harold S. Luft sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 287 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Harold S. Luft D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Harold S. Luft sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Harold S. Luft is affiliated with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Oncology, Economics and Econometrics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics including Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Patient Dignity and Privacy, Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare, and Head and Neck Cancer Studies.

Recent publications reflect a focus on lung cancer and healthcare systems, with notable papers including:

  • Incidence of Lung Cancer Among Never-Smoking Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Females (2021) published in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Smoking-Cessation Interventions After Lung Cancer Screening Guideline Change (2020) in American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Population-Based Registry Linkages to Improve Validity of Electronic Health Record-Based Cancer Research (2020) in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Integrating Electronic Health Record, Cancer Registry, and Geospatial Data to Study Lung Cancer in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Ethnic Groups (2021) in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • "It is not the fault of the health care team - it is the way the system works": a mixed-methods quality improvement study of patients with advanced cancer and family members reveals challenges navigating a fragmented healthcare system and the administrative and financial burdens of care (2024) in BMC Health Services Research

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Harold S. Luft include:

  • Su-Ying Liang
  • Manali I. Patel
  • Caroline A. Thompson
  • Anqi Jin
  • Daphne Y. Lichtensztajn

The most common venues where Harold S. Luft's research appears are Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, BMC Health Services Research, and Learning Health Systems.

Harold S. Luft was recognized with the award of Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 1985, indicating a longstanding engagement with the medical research community.

Best Publications

  • Should Operations Be Regionalized? The Empirical Relation between Surgical Volume and Mortality

    H. S. Luft;J. P. Bunker;A. C. Enthoven

  • Managed care plan performance since 1980. A literature analysis.

    Robert H. Miller;Harold S. Luft

  • The volume-outcome relationship: practice-makes-perfect or selective-referral patterns?

    H S Luft;S S Hunt;S C Maerki

  • Does Managed Care Lead To Better Or Worse Quality Of Care

    Robert H. Miller;Harold S. Luft

  • Electronic Health Record Logs Indicate That Physicians Split Time Evenly Between Seeing Patients And Desktop Medicine

    Ming Tai-Seale;Cliff W. Olson;Jinnan Li;Albert S. Chan

  • Correlation of Travel Time on Roads versus Straight Line Distance

    Ciaran S. Phibbs;Harold S. Luft

  • Effects of Surgeon Volume and Hospital Volume on Quality of Care in Hospitals

    Robert G. Hughes;Sandra S. Hunt;Harold S. Luft

  • The relation between surgical volume and mortality: an exploration of causal factors and alternative models.

    Harold S. Luft

  • HMO plan performance update: an analysis of the literature, 1997-2001.

    Robert H. Miller;Harold S. Luft

  • The role of specialized clinical services in competition among hospitals.

    Harold S Luft;James C Robinson;Deborah W Garnick;Susan C Maerki

  • Regionalization of Cardiac Surgery in the United States and Canada: Geographic Access, Choice, and Outcomes

    K. Grumbach;G. M. Anderson;H. S. Luft;L. L. Roos

  • Beyond Consent: Building Trusting Relationships With Diverse Populations in Precision Medicine Research.

    Stephanie A. Kraft;Mildred K. Cho;Katherine Gillespie;Meghan Halley

  • A comparison of administrative versus clinical data: coronary artery bypass surgery as an example

    Patrick S. Romano;Leslie L. Roos;Harold S. Luft;James G. Jollis

  • The Impact of Financial Incentives on Quality of Health Care

    R. Adams Dudley;Robert H. Miller;Tamir Y. Korenbrot;Harold S. Luft

  • The Impact of Poor Health on Earnings

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  • Making sense out of utilization data.

    John C. Hershey;Harold S. Luft;Joan M. Gianaris

  • Selecting categories of patients for regionalization. Implications of the relationship between volume and outcome.

    Susan C. Maerki;Harold S. Luft;Sandra S. Hunt

  • Choice of hospital for delivery: a comparison of high-risk and low-risk women.

    C S Phibbs;D H Mark;H S Luft;D J Peltzman-Rennie

  • Costing Medical Care: Using Medicare Administrative Data

    Judith R. Lave;Chris L. Pashos;Gerard F. Anderson;David Brailer

  • Pharmacoeconomic analyses: making them transparent, making them credible.

    Drummond Rennie;Harold S. Luft

  • Use of coronary artery bypass surgery in the United States and Canada. Influence of age and income.

    Geoffrey M. Anderson;Kevin Grumbach;Harold S. Luft;Leslie L. Roos

  • Regionalization of Cardiac Surgery in the United States and Canada

    Kevin Grumbach;Geoffrey M. Anderson;Harold S. Luft;Leslie L. Roos

  • Association of volume with outcome of coronary artery bypass graft surgery —scheduled vs nonscheduled operations

    J A Showstack;K E Rosenfeld;D W Garnick;H S Luft

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick S. Romano
Patrick S. Romano University of California, Davis
Stephen J. McPhee
Stephen J. McPhee University of California, San Francisco
James C. Robinson
James C. Robinson University of California, Berkeley
Kevin Grumbach
Kevin Grumbach University of California, San Francisco
Allison W. Kurian
Allison W. Kurian Stanford University
Leslie L. Roos
Leslie L. Roos University of Manitoba
Robert H. Brook
Robert H. Brook RAND Corporation
Alain C. Enthoven
Alain C. Enthoven Stanford University
Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley
Carolyn M. Clancy
Carolyn M. Clancy United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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