Liz Goldman, MD, MAS
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

In addition, she also works as a Clinical Informaticist in the DPH Office of Health Informatics where she is the Director of Research and Evaluation Analytics. Finally, she supervises residents in the Richard Fine People's Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Her research and policy work focuses on improving and transforming health systems for underserved diverse populations. She has developed and implemented systems innovations that improve care transitions, value of care, and care coordination efforts across medical and behavioral health settings.

As part of her work to improve the science of quality measurement, she led the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Validation Project which assessed the accuracy of California patient discharge data, and was awarded AHRQ grant funding to evaluate the impact of administrative data quality on hospital performance metrics. Her expertise in using administrative data for quality assessments has been nationally recognized, through her participation in the AHRQ Quality Indicator Expert Panel.

• Association of Rapid Molecular Testing With Duration of Respiratory Isolation for Patients With Possible Tuberculosis in a US Hospital.
  JAMA internal medicine 2018 Chaisson LH, Duong D, Cattamanchi A, Roemer M, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Sur M, Pham P, Lin MA, Goldman LE, Quan J, Perez S, Healy M, Higashi J, Winston L, Haller B, Luetkemeyer AF, Davis JL
• Clinician Perspectives on the Management of Abnormal Subcritical Tests in an Urban Academic Safety-Net Health Care System.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2017 Clarity C, Sarkar U, Lee J, Handley MA, Goldman LE
• Management of Hypertension in Primary Care Safety-Net Clinics in the United States: A Comparison of Community Health Centers and Private Physicians' Offices.
  Health services research 2016 Fontil V, Bibbins-Domingo K, Nguyen OK, Guzman D, Goldman LE
• Displaying radiation exposure and cost information at order entry for outpatient diagnostic imaging: a strategy to inform clinician ordering.
  BMJ quality & safety 2016 Kruger JF, Chen AH, Rybkin A, Leeds K, Guzman D, Vittinghoff E, Goldman LE
• From the closest observers of patient care: a thematic analysis of online narrative reviews of hospitals.
  BMJ quality & safety 2015 Bardach NS, Lyndon A, Asteria-Peñaloza R, Goldman LE, Lin GA, Dudley RA
• Hospitalization-Associated Disability in Adults Admitted to a Safety-Net Hospital.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Chodos AH, Kushel MB, Greysen SR, Guzman D, Kessell ER, Sarkar U, Goldman LE, Critchfield JM, Pierluissi E
• The Effect of a Care Transition Intervention on the Patient Experience of Older Multi-Lingual Adults in the Safety Net: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Chan B, Goldman LE, Sarkar U, Schneidermann M, Kessell E, Guzman D, Critchfield J, Kushel M
• Facility Mammography Volume in Relation to Breast Cancer Screening Outcomes.
  Journal of medical screening 2015 Onega T, Goldman LE, Walker RL, Miglioretti DL, Buist DS, Taplin S, Geller BM, Hill DA, Smith-Bindman R
• Availability of Advanced Breast Imaging at Screening Facilities Serving Vulnerable Populations.
  Journal of medical screening 2015 Lee CI, Bogart A, Germino JC, Goldman LE, Hubbard RA, Haas JS, Hill DA, Tosteson AN, Alford-Teaster JA, DeMartini WB, Lehman CD, Onega TL
• Functional disability in late-middle-aged and older adults admitted to a safety-net hospital.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014 Brown RT, Pierluissi E, Guzman D, Kessell ER, Goldman LE, Sarkar U, Schneidermann M, Critchfield JM, Kushel MB
• Support from hospital to home for elders: a randomized trial.
  Annals of internal medicine 2014 Goldman LE, Sarkar U, Kessell E, Guzman D, Schneidermann M, Pierluissi E, Walter B, Vittinghoff E, Critchfield J, Kushel M
• Effect of Present-on-Admission (POA) Reporting Accuracy on Hospital Performance Assessments Using Risk-Adjusted Mortality.
  Health services research 2014 Goldman LE, Chu PW, Bacchetti P, Kruger J, Bindman A
• Understanding how to improve collaboration between hospitals and primary care in postdischarge care transitions: a qualitative study of primary care leaders' perspectives.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2014 Nguyen OK, Kruger J, Greysen SR, Lyndon A, Goldman LE
• "Missing pieces"--functional, social, and environmental barriers to recovery for vulnerable older adults transitioning from hospital to home.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014 Greysen SR, Hoi-Cheung D, Garcia V, Kessell E, Sarkar U, Goldman L, Schneidermann M, Critchfield J, Pierluissi E, Kushel M
• Clinician perspectives on considering radiation exposure to patients when ordering imaging tests: a qualitative study.
  BMJ quality & safety 2014 Kruger JF, Chen AH, Rybkin A, Leeds K, Frosch DL, Goldman LE
• Clinicians' views on displaying cost information to increase clinician cost-consciousness.
  The American journal of managed care 2014 Kruger JF, Chen AH, Rybkin A, Leeds K, Frosch DL, Goldman E
• Effect of pay-for-performance incentives on quality of care in small practices with electronic health records: a randomized trial.
  JAMA 2013 Bardach NS, Wang JJ, De Leon SF, Shih SC, Boscardin WJ, Goldman LE, Dudley RA
• Timeliness of abnormal screening and diagnostic mammography follow-up at facilities serving vulnerable women.
  Medical care 2013 Goldman LE, Walker R, Hubbard R, Kerlikowske K, Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium
• Incidence, predictors, and outcomes associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation after major noncardiac surgery.
  American heart journal 2012 Bhave PD, Goldman LE, Vittinghoff E, Maselli J, Auerbach A
• Accuracy of do not resuscitate (DNR) in administrative data.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2012 Goldman LE, Chu PW, Osmond D, Bindman A
• Federally qualified health centers and private practice performance on ambulatory care measures.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2012 Goldman LE, Chu PW, Tran H, Romano MJ, Stafford RS
• Facility characteristics do not explain higher false-positive rates in diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable women.
  Medical care 2012 Goldman LE, Walker R, Miglioretti DL, Smith-Bindman R, Kerlikowske AK, Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium
• Prediction of hospital acute myocardial infarction and heart failure 30-day mortality rates using publicly reported performance measures.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2011 Aaronson DS, Bardach NS, Lin GA, Chattopadhyay A, Goldman LE, Dudley RA
• Statin use and postoperative atrial fibrillation after major noncardiac surgery.
  Heart rhythm 2011 Bhave PD, Goldman LE, Vittinghoff E, Maselli JH, Auerbach A
• The accuracy of present-on-admission reporting in administrative data.
  Health services research 2011 Goldman LE, Chu PW, Osmond D, Bindman A
• Accuracy of diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable women.
  Medical care 2011 Goldman LE, Walker R, Miglioretti DL, Smith-Bindman R, Kerlikowske K, National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium
• An assessment of the quality of mammography care at facilities treating medically vulnerable populations.
  Medical care 2008 Goldman LE, Haneuse SJ, Miglioretti DL, Kerlikowske K, Buist DS, Yankaskas B, Smith-Bindman R, National Cancer Institute Sponsored Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium
• Comparisons of health plan quality: does the sampling strategy affect the results?
  Medical care 2008 Goldman LE, Chattopadhyay A, Bindman AB
• Comparison of change in quality of care between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals.
  JAMA 2008 Werner RM, Goldman LE, Dudley RA
• United States rural hospital quality in the Hospital Compare database-accounting for hospital characteristics.
  Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2008 Goldman LE, Dudley RA
• Quality of care in hospitals with a high percent of Medicaid patients.
  Medical care 2007 Goldman LE, Vittinghoff E, Dudley RA
• Current and future directions in Medi-Cal chronic disease care management: a view from the top.
  The American journal of managed care 2007 Goldman LE, Handley M, Rundall TG, Schillinger D
• Public reporting and pay-for-performance: safety-net hospital executives' concerns and policy suggestions.
  Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 2007 Goldman LE, Henderson S, Dohan DP, Talavera JA, Dudley RA
• Do opiates affect the clinical evaluation of patients with acute abdominal pain?
  JAMA 2006 Ranji SR, Goldman LE, Simel DL, Shojania KG
• Preterm infants with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia: presentation, response to therapy, and outcome.
  Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing 2001 Goldman LE, Boramanand NK, Acevedo V, Gallagher P, Nehgme R