Naomi Bardach, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

In recognition of her passion and capacity for mentoring, she received the UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Mentoring Award for Associate Professors in 2020. Her research program is focused on improving the quality of inpatient and outpatient pediatric care, with a foundation in implementation and dissemination science. She is co-investigator on two of the AHRQ-funded U18 Pediatric Quality Measurement Program (PQMP) grants to support development and testing of pediatric quality measures. Clinical conditions of focus for those grants are asthma, sickle cell, mental health, and inpatient to outpatient transitions of care. As PI of an NICHD-funded R01, she is collecting reports on patient safety events from family and patients on the pediatric inpatient unit at the point of care, and making those reports rapidly available to clinicians and quality improvement staff. Specific areas of interest for Dr. Bardach are: quality measurement; the use of the measures in interventions such as, public reporting, internal quality improvement, and financial incentive programs, to drive better health outcomes for children and reduce disparities in care; and leveraging technology to integrate patient and caregiver voices into quality improvement efforts.

• Follow-up After Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Visits.
  Pediatrics 2023 Hoffmann JA, Krass P, Rodean J, Bardach NS, Cafferty R, Coker TR, Cutler GJ, Hall M, Morse RB, Nash KA, Parikh K, Zima BT
• Collaborative to Increase Lethal Means Counseling for Caregivers of Youth With Suicidality.
  Pediatrics 2022 Leyenaar JK, Tolpadi A, Parast L, Esporas M, Britto MT, Gidengil C, Wilson KM, Bardach NS, Basco WT, Brittan MS, Williams DJ, Wood KE, Yung S, Dawley E, Elliott A, Manges KA, Plemmons G, Rice T, …
• Utility of illness symptoms for predicting COVID-19 infections in children.
  BMC pediatrics 2022 Zhou GY, Penwill NY, Cheng G, Singh P, Cheung A, Shin M, Nguyen M, Mittal S, Burrough W, Spad MA, Bourne S, Bardach NS, Perito ER
• COVID-19 Testing Strategies for K-12 Schools in California: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2022 Maya S, McCorvie R, Jacobson K, Shete PB, Bardach N, Kahn JG
• Adjusting for Social Risk Factors in Pediatric Quality Measures: Adding to the Evidence Base.
  Academic pediatrics 2022 Bucholz EM, Toomey SL, McCulloch CE, Bardach N
• Development and Testing of an Emergency Department Quality Measure for Pediatric Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm.
  Academic pediatrics 2022 Parast L, Burkhart Q, Bardach NS, Thombley R, Basco WT, Barabell G, Williams DJ, Mitchel E, Machado E, Raghavan P, Tolpadi A, Mangione-Smith R
• Follow-Up After Asthma Emergency Department Visits and Its Relationship With Subsequent Asthma-Related Utilization.
  Academic pediatrics 2022 Bardach NS, Harder VS, McCulloch CE, Thombley R, Shaw JS, Hart VC, Cabana MD
• Barriers and facilitators to clinical implementation of radiotherapy treatment planning automation: A survey study of medical dosimetrists.
  Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2022 Petragallo R, Bardach N, Ramirez E, Lamb JM
• Family Input for Quality and Safety (FIQS): Using mobile technology for in-hospital reporting from families and patients.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2022 Bardach NS, Stotts JR, Fiore DM, Sarkar U, Sharma AE, Boscardin WJ, Avina L, Peralta-Neel C, Rosenbluth G
• Improving Completion Rates of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasounds in Children with Sickle Cell Disease Using Quality Improvement Efforts: In-Clinic Vs. Population-Based Assessments.
  Blood 2021 Madhav Vissa, Marsha Treadwell, Naomi Bardach
• Weekend Versus Weekday Asthma-Related Emergency Department Utilization.
  Academic pediatrics 2021 Mahony T, Harder VS, Ang N, McCulloch CE, Shaw JS, Thombley R, Cabana MD, Kleinman LC, Bardach NS
• Optimizing COVID-19 Symptom Screening in the Pediatric Population.
  2021 Geena Zhou, Prachi Singh, Emily R. Perito, Naomi Bardach, Nicole Penwill, William Burrough, Ann Cheung, Margaret Nguyen, Shalini Mittal, Grace Cheng, Mia-Ashley Spad
• Preventing COVID-19 Transmission in Education Settings.
  Pediatrics 2021 Kaiser SV, Watson A, Dogan B, Karmur A, Warren K, Wang P, Camano Sosa M, Olarte A, Dorsey S, Su M, Brown L, Sachdev D, Bardach NS
• Quality of Care for Youth Hospitalized for Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm.
  Academic pediatrics 2021 Connell SK, Burkhart Q, Tolpadi A, Parast L, Gidengil CA, Yung S, Basco WT, Williams D, Britto MT, Brittan M, Wood KE, Bardach N, McGalliard J, Mangione-Smith R, Pediatric Research in Inpatient …
• School closures reduced social mixing of children during COVID-19 with implications for transmission risk and school reopening policies.
  Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 2021 Head JR, Andrejko KL, Cheng Q, Collender PA, Phillips S, Boser A, Heaney AK, Hoover CM, Wu SL, Northrup GR, Click K, Bardach NS, Lewnard JA, Remais JV
• Assessment of automated clinical trial recruitment and enrolment using patient-facing technology.
  BMJ health & care informatics 2021 Bardach NS, Lam R, Jasik CB
• Supervised Self-Collected SARS-Cov-2 Testing in Classroom-Based Summer Camps to Inform Safe In-Person Learning.
  Journal of Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health 2021 Peter B Cooch, Annalisa Watson, Apryl Olarte, Emily D Crawford, Joseph L DeRisi, Bryan Greenhouse, Jill Hakim, Keirstinne Turcios, Katherine S Pollard, Lee R Atkinson-McEvoy, Raphael Hirsch, Roberta L…
• Improving Preventive Care for Children With Sickle Cell Anemia: A Quality Improvement Initiative.
  Pediatric quality & safety 2020 Cabana MD, Marsh A, Treadwell MJ, Stemmler P, Rowland M, Bender MA, Bhasin N, Chung JH, Hassell K, Abdul Rashid NFN, Wong TE, Bardach NS
• Statewide Asthma Learning Collaborative Participation and Asthma-Related Emergency Department Use.
  Pediatrics 2020 Harder VS, Shaw JS, McCulloch CE, Kill L, Robinson KJ, Shepard MT, Cabana MD, Bardach NS
• How What You Measure Matters: Risk-Adjusted Length of Stay and Observation Status.
  Pediatrics 2020 Bardach NS
• ED Visits and Readmissions After Follow-up for Mental Health Hospitalization.
  Pediatrics 2020 Bardach NS, Doupnik SK, Rodean J, Zima BT, Gay JC, Nash C, Tanguturi Y, Coker TR
• Depression, Anxiety, and Emergency Department Use for Asthma.
  Pediatrics 2019 Bardach NS, Neel C, Kleinman LC, McCulloch CE, Thombley R, Zima BT, Grupp-Phelan J, Coker TR, Cabana MD
• Barriers to Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Guideline Recommendations.
  Global pediatric health 2019 Cabana MD, Kanter J, Marsh AM, Treadwell MJ, Rowland M, Stemmler P, Bardach NS
• Best practices in implementing inpatient pediatric asthma pathways: a qualitative study.
  The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma 2019 Kaiser SV, Lam R, Cabana MD, Bekmezian A, Bardach NS, Auerbach A, Rehm RS, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network
• What Words Convey: The Potential for Patient Narratives to Inform Quality Improvement.
  The Milbank quarterly 2019 Grob R, Schlesinger M, Barre LR, Bardach N, Lagu T, Shaller D, Parker AM, Martino SC, Finucane ML, Cerully JL, Palimaru A
• Limitations of Using Pediatric Respiratory Illness Readmissions to Compare Hospital Performance.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Kaiser SV, Lam R, Joseph GB, McCulloch C, Hsia RY, Cabana MD, Bardach NS
• Mental Health Conditions and Unplanned Hospital Readmissions in Children.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Doupnik SK, Lawlor J, Zima BT, Coker TR, Bardach NS, Rehm KP, Gay JC, Hall M, Berry JG
• Hospital-Based Quality Measures for Pediatric Mental Health Care.
  Pediatrics 2018 Bardach NS, Burkhart Q, Richardson LP, Roth CP, Murphy JM, Parast L, Gidengil CA, Marmet J, Britto MT, Mangione-Smith R
• Letter to the Editor in response to "Online physician ratings fail to predict actual performance on measures of quality, value, and peer review".
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2018 Bardach NS
• Raising up the voices of the closest observers of care.
  BMJ quality & safety 2017 Bardach NS
• Postacute Care after Pediatric Hospitalizations for a Primary Mental Health Condition.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2017 Gay JC, Zima BT, Coker TR, Doupnik SK, Hall M, Rodean J, O'Neill M, Morse R, Rehm KP, Berry JG, Bardach NS
• Development of New Quality Measures for Hospital-Based Care of Suicidal Youth.
  Academic pediatrics 2017 Parast L, Bardach NS, Burkhart Q, Richardson LP, Murphy JM, Gidengil CA, Britto MT, Elliott MN, Mangione-Smith R
• 1.65 Use of Post-Acute Care Following Acute Care Hospitalization for Mental Health Conditions in Children and Adolescents.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2017 James Gay, Bonnie T. Zima, Stephanie Doupnik, Tumaini R. Coker, Matt Hall, Jonathan Rodean, Margaret O'Neill, Jay G. Berry, Kris Rehm, Naomi S. Bardach
• High-Expenditure Pharmaceutical Use Among Children in Medicaid.
  Pediatrics 2017 Cohen E, Hall M, Lopert R, Bruen B, Chamberlain LJ, Bardach N, Gedney J, Zima BT, Berry JG
• Mental Health Conditions and Medical and Surgical Hospital Utilization.
  Pediatrics 2016 Doupnik SK, Lawlor J, Zima BT, Coker TR, Bardach NS, Hall M, Berry JG
• Psychiatric Disorders and Trends in Resource Use in Pediatric Hospitals.
  Pediatrics 2016 Zima BT, Rodean J, Hall M, Bardach NS, Coker TR, Berry JG
• 5.58 THE INFLUENCE OF COMORBID PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL UTILIZATION.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2016 Stephanie K. Doupnik, Bonnie T. Zima, John Lawlor, Tumaini R. Coker, Naomi S. Bardach, Matthew Hall, Jay G. Berry
• Variation in Quality of Urgent Health Care Provided During Commercial Virtual Visits.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Schoenfeld AJ, Davies JM, Marafino BJ, Dean M, DeJong C, Bardach NS, Kazi DS, Boscardin WJ, Lin GA, Duseja R, Mei YJ, Mehrotra A, Dudley RA
• 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
• Revisit rates and associated costs after an emergency department encounter: a multistate analysis.
  Annals of internal medicine 2015 Duseja R, Bardach NS, Lin GA, Yazdany J, Dean ML, Clay TH, Boscardin WJ, Dudley RA
• Sources of traffic and visitors' preferences regarding online public reports of quality: web analytics and online survey results.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2015 Bardach NS, Hibbard JH, Greaves F, Dudley RA
• Preoperative medical testing in Medicare patients undergoing cataract surgery.
  The New England journal of medicine 2015 Chen CL, Lin GA, Bardach NS, Clay TH, Boscardin WJ, Gelb AW, Maze M, Gropper MA, Dudley RA
• Editorial: Moving Patients from Consultants to Partners in Health Care System Redesign: Achieving Meaningful Engagement.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2014 Lin GA, Bardach NS
• A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2014 Cabana MD, Bardach NS
• Thirty-day hospital readmissions in systemic lupus erythematosus: predictors and hospital- and state-level variation.
  Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) 2014 Yazdany J, Marafino BJ, Dean ML, Bardach NS, Duseja R, Ward MM, Dudley RA
• Emergency department visits in the neonatal period in the United States.
  Pediatric emergency care 2014 Lee HC, Bardach NS, Maselli JH, Gonzales R
• N-gram support vector machines for scalable procedure and diagnosis classification, with applications to clinical free text data from the intensive care unit.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2014 Marafino BJ, Davies JM, Bardach NS, Dean ML, Dudley RA
• National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency department.
  Pediatrics 2014 Kaiser SV, Asteria-Penaloza R, Vittinghoff E, Rosenbluth G, Cabana MD, Bardach NS
• Common and costly hospitalizations for pediatric mental health disorders.
  Pediatrics 2014 Bardach NS, Coker TR, Zima BT, Murphy JM, Knapp P, Richardson LP, Edwall G, Mangione-Smith R
• Physician payment incentives to improve care quality--reply.
  JAMA 2014 Bardach NS, Shih SC, Dudley RA
• Small practices' experience with EHR, quality measurement, and incentives.
  The American journal of managed care 2013 Begum R, Smith Ryan M, Winther CH, Wang JJ, Bardach NS, Parsons AH, Shih SC, Dudley RA
• 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
• Measuring hospital quality using pediatric readmission and revisit rates.
  Pediatrics 2013 Bardach NS, Vittinghoff E, Asteria-Peñaloza R, Edwards JD, Yazdany J, Lee HC, Boscardin WJ, Cabana MD, Dudley RA
• The relationship between commercial website ratings and traditional hospital performance measures in the USA.
  BMJ quality & safety 2012 Bardach NS, Asteria-Peñaloza R, Boscardin WJ, Dudley RA
• 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
• The impact of statistical choices on neonatal intensive care unit quality ratings based on nosocomial infection rates.
  Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2011 Lee HC, Chien AT, Bardach NS, Clay T, Gould JB, Dudley RA
• Small numbers limit the use of the inpatient pediatric quality indicators for hospital comparison.
  Academic pediatrics 2010 Bardach NS, Chien AT, Dudley RA
• The unintended consequences of quality improvement.
  Current opinion in pediatrics 2009 Bardach NS, Cabana MD
• Evolving health information technology and the timely availability of visit diagnoses from ambulatory visits: a natural experiment in an integrated delivery system.
  BMC medical informatics and decision making 2009 Bardach NS, Huang J, Brand R, Hsu J
• Preparing fourth-year medical students to teach during internship.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2006 Haber RJ, Bardach NS, Vedanthan R, Gillum LA, Haber LA, Dhaliwal GS
• Adjustment for do-not-resuscitate orders reverses the apparent in-hospital mortality advantage for minorities.
  The American journal of medicine 2005 Bardach N, Zhao S, Pantilat S, Johnston SC
• Regionalization of treatment for subarachnoid hemorrhage: a cost-utility analysis.
  Circulation 2004 Bardach NS, Olson SJ, Elkins JS, Smith WS, Lawton MT, Johnston SC
• 'Teaching to teach': enhancing fourth year medical students' teaching skills.
  Medical education 2003 Bardach NS, Vedanthan R, Haber RJ
• Association between subarachnoid hemorrhage outcomes and number of cases treated at California hospitals.
  Stroke 2002 Bardach NS, Zhao S, Gress DR, Lawton MT, Johnston SC