Peter Barish, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Peter Barish is a hospitalist working primarily at the UCSF Parnassus campus. He attends on both teaching and non-teaching services and is interested in medical education of both residents and medical students. His academic interests include medical education, diagnostic reasoning, and diagnostic error.

Education & Training

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• Internal Medicine University of Washington 06/2017
• MD Weill Cornell Medical College 50/2014
• BS Haverford College 05/2008

Publications (5)

Top publication keywords:
Medical OverusePatient ReadmissionPandemicsEmergency Service, HospitalFemaleAdultHospital MedicineMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesRespiratory Tract InfectionsRisk FactorsVirusesDiagnostic ErrorsRetrospective StudiesPrevalenceHumans

• Prevalence and Causes of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Patients Under Investigation for COVID-19.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Auerbach AD, Astik GJ, O'Leary KJ, Barish PN, Kantor MA, Raffel KR, Ranji SR, Mueller SK, Burney SN, Galinsky J, Gershanik EF, Goyal A, Chitneni PR, Rastegar S, Esmaili AM, Fenton C, Virapongse A, …
• Overuse of Respiratory Viral Panels: A Teachable Moment.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Greenberg A, Barish P, Hoffman A
• 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, …
• Prevalence and characterisation of diagnostic error among 7-day all-cause hospital medicine readmissions: a retrospective cohort study.
  BMJ quality & safety 2020 Raffel KE, Kantor MA, Barish P, Esmaili A, Lim H, Xue F, Ranji SR
• 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, …