Nader Najafi, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Nader Najafi practices medicine on both the teaching and direct care services at UCSF Parnassus. He directs the Department of Medicine’s Data Core, a group of analysts who provide data acquisition and analysis services for research, quality improvement, medical education, and clinical administration.
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His academic interest is in modeling observational clinical data for the purpose of statistical inference and predictive analytics.
Nader Najafi completed his Internal Medicine residency training and hospital medicine fellowship training at UCSF. He is the former Associate Director of Quality Improvement for the Division of Hospital Medicine.
Education & Training
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- MAS Clinical Research University of California, San Francisco 09/2021
- Residency Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco 06/2011
Interests
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- observational data analysis
- clinical research
Publications (21)
Top publication keywords:
Data AccuracyTeaching RoundsElectronic Health RecordsTelemetryHeart Function TestsMedical Staff, HospitalUnnecessary ProceduresPain, PostoperativeDeliriumMedical Order Entry SystemsDocumentationDrug PrescriptionsProgram DevelopmentHospitals, UniversityInterprofessional Relations
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Tell-a provider about tele: Reducing overuse of telemetry across 10 hospitals in a safety net system.
Journal of hospital medicine 2022 Krouss M, Israilov S, Alaiev D, Seferi A, Kansara T, Brandeis G, Saladini-Aponte C, Wat M, Talledo J, Tsega S, Chandra K, Zaurova M, Manchego PA, Najafi N, Cho HJ -
Effectiveness of an Analytics-Based Intervention for Reducing Sleep Interruption in Hospitalized Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA internal medicine 2022 Najafi N, Robinson A, Pletcher MJ, Patel S -
Applying Machine Learning Across Sites: External Validation of a Surgical Site Infection Detection Algorithm.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021 Zhu Y, Simon GJ, Wick EC, Abe-Jones Y, Najafi N, Sheka A, Tourani R, Skube SJ, Hu Z, Melton GB -
A Methodology to Generate Longitudinally Updated Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure Prognostication Scores From Electronic Health Record Data.
Hepatology communications 2021 Ge J, Najafi N, Zhao W, Somsouk M, Fang M, Lai JC -
Evaluation of a novel metric for personalized opioid prescribing after hospitalization.
PloS one 2020 Iverson NR, Lau CY, Abe-Jones Y, Fang MC, Kangelaris KN, Prasad P, Shah SJ, Najafi N
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Clinical features, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients presenting with acute respiratory illness: A retrospective cohort study of patients with and without COVID-19.
EClinicalMedicine 2020 Shah SJ, Barish PN, Prasad PA, Kistler A, Neff N, Kamm J, Li LM, Chiu CY, Babik JM, Fang MC, Abe-Jones Y, Alipanah N, Alvarez FN, Botvinnik OB, Castaneda G, CZB CLIAhub Consortium, Dadasovich RM, … -
Randomized Controlled Trials of Electronic Health Record Interventions: Design, Conduct, and Reporting Considerations.
Annals of internal medicine 2020 Pletcher MJ, Flaherman V, Najafi N, Patel S, Rushakoff RJ, Hoffman A, Robinson A, Cucina RJ, McCulloch CE, Gonzales R, Auerbach A -
Clinical features, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients presenting with acute respiratory illness: a comparison of patients with and without COVID-19.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Shah SJ, Barish PN, Prasad PA, Kistler AL, Neff N, Kamm J, Li LM, Chiu CY, Babick JM, Fang MC, Abe-Jones Y, Alipanah N, Alvarez FN, Botvinnik OB, Davis JM, Castenada GD, Consortium C, Dadasovich RM, … -
Prevalence and Predictability of Low-Yield Inpatient Laboratory Diagnostic Tests.
JAMA network open 2019 Xu S, Hom J, Balasubramanian S, Schroeder LF, Najafi N, Roy S, Chen JH -
Effectiveness of a Best Practice Alert to Reduce Telemetry Orders-Reply.
JAMA internal medicine 2019 Najafi N, Cucina R, Khanna R -
Reducing Unnecessary Treatment of Asymptomatic Elevated Blood Pressure with Intravenous Medications on the General Internal Medicine Wards: A Quality Improvement Initiative.
Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Jacobs ZG, Najafi N, Fang MC, Prasad PA, Abe-Jones Y, Auerbach AD, Patel S -
Assessment of a Targeted Electronic Health Record Intervention to Reduce Telemetry Duration: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA internal medicine 2019 Najafi N, Cucina R, Pierre B, Khanna R -
Electronic Order Volume as a Meaningful Component in Estimating Patient Complexity and Resident Physician Workload.
Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Groningen NV, Prasad PA, Najafi N, Rajkomar A, Khanna RR, Fang MC -
Characterizing the Source of Text in Electronic Health Record Progress Notes.
JAMA internal medicine 2017 Wang MD, Khanna R, Najafi N -
It All Just Clicks: Development of an Inpatient E-Consult Program.
Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Najafi N, Harrison JD, Duong J, Greenberg A, Cheng HQ -
Standardized Attending Rounds to Improve the Patient Experience: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.
Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Monash B, Najafi N, Mourad M, Rajkomar A, Ranji SR, Fang MC, Glass M, Milev D, Ding Y, Shen A, Sharpe BA, Harrison JD -
Improving attending rounds: Qualitative reflections from multidisciplinary providers.
Hospital practice (1995) 2015 Najafi N, Monash B, Mourad M, Ding Y, Glass M, Burrell GJ, Harrison JD -
A call for evidence-based telemetry monitoring: the beep goes on.
JAMA internal medicine 2014 Najafi N -
Arch Intern Med
Use and Outcomes of Telemetry Monitoring on a Medicine Service 2012 Najafi N, Auerbach A -
Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) 13th Annual National Meeting
Use of Electrocardiographic Telemetry Monitoring on a Medicine Service 2010 Najafi N, Auerbach A -
Islet 1 is expressed in distinct cardiovascular lineages, including pacemaker and coronary vascular cells.
Developmental biology 2006 Sun Y, Liang X, Najafi N, Cass M, Lin L, Cai CL, Chen J, Evans SM