2026 Peter S. Hussey: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	40	5326	4940	2519	2293	129	7769

Overview

Peter S. Hussey is affiliated with the RAND Corporation in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on health professions, medicine, and economics, econometrics, and finance. Within these disciplines, their work touches on subfields including general health professions, oncology, emergency medical services, infectious diseases, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's published research includes papers and book publications. A notable paper authored by Brionna Y. Hair in 2020, titled "A comparison of ambulatory perioperative times in hospitals and freestanding centers", was published in UNC Libraries.

They have contributed to several books published by RAND Corporation eBooks, including:

A Comparison of National and International Approaches to COVID-19-Related Measures, 2021
Practice Expense Methodology and Data Collection Research and Analysis: Interim Phase II Report, 2020
Measures and Methodology for International Comparisons of Health Care System Performance: Final Report, 2021

Their research topics cover a range of public health and policy areas, particularly:

COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
Disaster response and management
COVID-19 clinical research studies
Primary care and health outcomes
Healthcare policy and management
Nursing roles and practices

Frequent coauthors involved in their research include Evan D. Peet, Barbara O. Wynn, Mahshid Abir, Megan K. Beckett, and Wenjing Huang.

Their work has appeared primarily in UNC Libraries, representing their publication venue with recorded outputs.

Best Publications

It’s The Prices, Stupid: Why The United States Is So Different From Other Countries

Gerard F. Anderson;Uwe E. Reinhardt;Peter S. Hussey;Varduhi Petrosyan

905
Citations
Population aging: a comparison among industrialized countries.

Gerard F. Anderson;Peter Sotir Hussey

637
Citations
U.S. Health Care Spending In An International Context

Uwe E. Reinhardt;Peter S. Hussey;Gerard F. Anderson

438
Citations
Continuity and the Costs of Care for Chronic Disease

Peter S. Hussey;Eric C. Schneider;Eric C. Schneider;Robert S. Rudin;D. Steven Fox

422
Citations
Primary Care: A Critical Review Of The Evidence On Quality And Costs Of Health Care

Mark W. Friedberg;Peter S. Hussey;Eric C. Schneider

418
Citations
Health spending in the United States and the rest of the industrialized world.

Gerard F. Anderson;Peter S. Hussey;Bianca K. Frogner;Hugh R. Waters

369
Citations
A systematic review of health care efficiency measures.

Peter S Hussey;Han de Vries;John Romley;John Romley;Margaret C Wang

365
Citations
The association between health care quality and cost: a systematic review.

Peter S. Hussey;Samuel Wertheimer;Ateev Mehrotra

364
Citations
Cross-National Comparisons Of Health Systems Using OECD Data, 1999

Uwe E. Reinhardt;Peter S. Hussey;Gerard F. Anderson

312
Citations
It's Still The Prices, Stupid: Why The US Spends So Much On Health Care, And A Tribute To Uwe Reinhardt

Gerard F. Anderson;Peter S. Hussey;Varduhi Petrosyan

251
Citations
How Does The Quality Of Care Compare In Five Countries

Peter S. Hussey;Gerard F. Anderson;Robin Osborn;Colin Feek

231
Citations
Comparing health system performance in OECD countries. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Gerard Anderson;Peter Sotir Hussey

211
Citations
Health spending and outcomes: Trends in OECD countries, 1960-1998

Gerard F. Anderson;Jeremy Hurst;Peter Sotir Hussey;Melissa Jee-Hughes

168
Citations
Measuring Care Continuity: A Comparison of Claims-based Methods.

Craig E. Pollack;Peter S. Hussey;Robert S. Rudin;D. Steven Fox

168
Citations
Comparing VA and Non-VA Quality of Care: A Systematic Review

Claire E. O'Hanlon;Claire E. O'Hanlon;Christina Y. Huang;Christina Y. Huang;Elizabeth M. Sloss;Rebecca Anhang Price

168
Citations
The PROMETHEUS Bundled Payment Experiment: Slow Start Shows Problems In Implementing New Payment Models

Peter S. Hussey;M. Susan Ridgely;Meredith B. Rosenthal

154
Citations
A comparison of single- and multi-payer health insurance systems and options for reform

P Hussey;G.F Anderson

149
Citations
Patient sharing among physicians and costs of care: a network analytic approach to care coordination using claims data.

Craig Evan Pollack;Craig Evan Pollack;Gary E. Weissman;Klaus W. Lemke;Peter S. Hussey

142
Citations
Controlling U.S. Health Care Spending — Separating Promising from Unpromising Approaches

Peter S. Hussey;Christine Eibner;M. Susan Ridgely;Elizabeth A. McGlynn

130
Citations
Identifying, Categorizing, and Evaluating Health Care Efficiency Measures

Elizabeth A. McGlynn;Paul G. Shekelle;Susan Chen;Dana P. Goldman

122
Citations
The Association Between Health Care Quality and Cost

Peter S. Hussey;Samuel Wertheimer;Ateev Mehrotra

12
Citations
Comparing VA and Non-Va Quality of Care

Claire E. O'Hanlon;Christina Y. Huang;Elizabeth M. Sloss;Rebecca Anhang Anhang Price

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard F. Anderson Johns Hopkins University

Craig Evan Pollack Johns Hopkins University

Meredith B. Rosenthal Harvard University

Arnold M. Epstein Harvard University

Arnold Milstein Stanford University

Harold S. Luft Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Jonathan P. Weiner Johns Hopkins University

Judith H. Hibbard University of Oregon

Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California

Neeraj Sood University of Southern California

External Links

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