Sajan Patel, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Director of Quality Improvement, Division of Hospital Medicine

Awards

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• Alpha Omega Alpha, NYU School of Medicine, 2011
• Graduated with Honors, UC Berkeley, 2006
• Phi Beta Kappa, UC Berkeley, 2006

Education & Training

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• Lean Champion UCSF Health 2023
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training UCSF Health 2020
• Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine 2016
• Residency Internal Medicine UCLA Medical Center 2014
• MD NYU School of Medicine 2011
• Undergraduate Molecular and Cell Biology; Psychology UC Berkeley 2006

Interests

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• Quality Improvement
• Performance Feedback
• Audit & Feedback

Publications (9)

Top publication keywords:
ColitisStreptococcal InfectionsSleepBacteremiaAntihypertensive AgentsQuality ImprovementHospitalistsFormative FeedbackTelemetryRNA, ViralDeliriumAdministration, IntravenousLabetalolStreptococcus pyogenesUnnecessary Procedures

• Individualized Average Length of Stay: A timelier, provider-level LOS metric.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2024 Pierce L, Harrison JD, Patel S
• 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
• Using Participatory Design to Engage Physicians in the Development of a Provider-Level Performance Dashboard and Feedback System.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021 Patel S, Pierce L, Jones M, Lai A, Cai M, Sharpe BA, Harrison JD
• 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 and virologic characteristics of the first 12 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States.
  Nature medicine 2020 COVID-19 Investigation Team

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• 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
• Next-generation audit and feedback for inpatient quality improvement using electronic health record data: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
  BMJ quality & safety 2018 Patel S, Rajkomar A, Harrison JD, Prasad PA, Valencia V, Ranji SR, Mourad M
• Acute Colitis in a Patient with Streptococcus pyogenes Bacteremia.
  The American journal of medicine 2017 Maraj B, Huang A, Patel S
• Physicians are often incorrect about the telemetry status of their patients.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Patel S, De Silva S, Dowling E