Urmimala Sarkar, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Sarkar’s work centers on innovating for health equity and improving the safety and quality of outpatient care for everyone, especially low-income and diverse populations. Her expertise spans topics including medical errors and patient safety, diabetes, and cancer prevention and survivorship. Dr. Sarkar’s research is collaborative and intersects with methods found in human-centered design, human factors engineering, data science, health services research, and implementation science. Dr. Sarkar believes that mentoring and training with a commitment to diversity and inclusion are critical to achieving health equity. She advances health equity scholarship by mentoring students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty at UCSF and beyond.

If you would like to get in touch with Dr. Sarkar about her lab or the S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech program, please visit the appropriate link in the 'Website' section below to submit an interest form.

• Experiences and Perceptions of Healthcare Stakeholders in Disclosing Errors and Adverse Events to Historically Marginalized Patients.
  Journal of patient safety 2023 Olazo K, Gallagher TH, Sarkar U
• Patient Safety in Outpatient Care.
  Patient Safety 2023 Urmimala Sarkar, Kiran Gupta
• Policies to Support Lactation at Highly Ranked US Medical Schools.
  JAMA network open 2023 Santhosh L, Vo A, Wick C, Mourad M, Sarkar U, Jagsi R, Mangurian C
• Visit and Between-Visit Interaction Frequency Before and After COVID-19 Telehealth Implementation.
  JAMA network open 2023 Nouri S, Lyles CR, Sherwin EB, Kuznia M, Rubinsky AD, Kemper KE, Nguyen OK, Sarkar U, Schillinger D, Khoong EC
• Language-Specific Challenges and Solutions for Equitable Telemedicine Implementation in the Primary Care Safety Net During COVID-19.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Sharma AE, Lisker S, Fields JD, Aulakh V, Figoni K, Jones ME, Arora NB, Sarkar U, Lyles CR
• Social Determinants of Health Documentation in Structured and Unstructured Clinical Data of Patients With Diabetes: Comparative Analysis.
  JMIR medical informatics 2023 Mehta S, Lyles CR, Rubinsky AD, Kemper KE, Auerbach J, Sarkar U, Gottlieb L, Brown Iii W
• Usability and acceptability of virtual reality for chronic pain management among diverse patients in a safety-net setting: a qualitative analysis.
  JAMIA open 2023 Dy M, Olazo K, Lyles CR, Lisker S, Weinberg J, Lee C, Tarver ME, Saha A, Kontson K, Araojo R, Brown E, Sarkar U
• Virtual Reality for Chronic Pain Management Among Historically Marginalized Populations: Systematic Review of Usability Studies.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2023 Dy M, Olazo K, Lisker S, Brown E, Saha A, Weinberg J, Sarkar U
• Acceptability and Usability of a Wearable Device for Sleep Health Among English- and Spanish-Speaking Patients in a Safety Net Clinic: Qualitative Analysis.
  JMIR formative research 2023 Purnell L, Sierra M, Lisker S, Lim MS, Bailey E, Sarkar U, Lyles CR, Nguyen KH
• Public Figure Vaccination Rhetoric and Vaccine Hesitancy: Retrospective Twitter Analysis.
  JMIR infodemiology 2023 Honcharov V, Li J, Sierra M, Rivadeneira NA, Olazo K, Nguyen TT, Mackey TK, Sarkar U
• Randomized trial protocol for remote monitoring for equity in advancing the control of hypertension in safety net systems (REACH-SNS) study.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2023 Fontil V, Khoong EC, Green BB, Ralston JD, Zhou C, Garcia F, McCulloch CE, Sarkar U, Lyles CR
• Factors Associated With Diagnostic Error: An Analysis of Closed Medical Malpractice Claims.
  Journal of patient safety 2023 Grenon V, Szymonifka J, Adler-Milstein J, Ross J, Sarkar U
• COVID-19-Associated Misinformation Across the South Asian Diaspora: Qualitative Study of WhatsApp Messages.
  JMIR infodemiology 2023 Sharma AE, Khosla K, Potharaju K, Mukherjea A, Sarkar U
• Conceptualizing the effective mechanisms of a social needs case management program shown to reduce hospital use: a qualitative study.
  BMC health services research 2022 Fleming MD, Safaeinili N, Knox M, Hernandez E, Esteban EE, Sarkar U, Brewster AL
• Multilevel Determinants of Digital Health Equity: A Literature Synthesis to Advance the Field.
  Annual review of public health 2022 Lyles CR, Nguyen OK, Khoong EC, Aguilera A, Sarkar U
• Medication adverse events in the ambulatory setting: A mixed-methods analysis.
  American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2022 Wong J, Lee SY, Sarkar U, Sharma AE
• Crossroads.
  2022 Priya Srinivasan, Pallabi Chakravorty, Urmimala Sarkar
• The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Use and the Use of Digital Health Tools: Secondary Analysis of the 2020 Health Information National Trends Survey.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2022 Zeng B, Rivadeneira NA, Wen A, Sarkar U, Khoong EC
• Training the next generation of learning health system scientists.
  Learning health systems 2022 Lozano PM, Lane-Fall M, Franklin PD, Rothman RL, Gonzales R, Ong MK, Gould MK, Beebe TJ, Roumie CL, Guise JM, Enders FT, Forrest CB, Mendonca EA, Starrels JL, Sarkar U, Savitz LA, Moon J, Linzer M, …
• Achieving Diagnostic Equity in Cardiovascular Disease.
  JAMA 2022 Sarkar U, Bibbins-Domingo K
• Cancer Risk Behaviors, Cancer Beliefs, and Health Information Seeking Among Under-Represented Populations in San Francisco: Differences by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
  Health equity 2022 Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Rivadeneira NA, DeVost MA, Sarkar U, Hiatt RA
• Use of geographical information systems (GIS) in assessing ecological profile, fish community structure and production of a large reservoir of Himachal Pradesh.
  Environmental monitoring and assessment 2022 Chakraborty H, Kayal T, Lianthuamluaia L, Sarkar UK, Das AK, Chakraborty S, Sahoo BK, Mondal K, Mandal S, Das BK
• Analysis of Narrative Text in Evaluations of Continuing Medical Education Faculty by Gender.
  JAMA network open 2022 Santhosh L, Rojek AE, Yim JWL, Lisker S, Wang K, Dy M, Sarkar U
• Identifying the Needs of Primary Care Providers Caring for Breast and Colon Cancer Survivors in the Safety-Net: a Qualitative Study.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2022 Dixit N, Rodriguez G, Sarkar U, Burke N, Trejo E, Devore DJ, Couey P, Nápoles AM
• Centering Health Equity in Telemedicine.
  Annals of family medicine 2022 Lyles CR, Sharma AE, Fields JD, Getachew Y, Sarkar U, Zephyrin L
• Impact of Sexual Harassment and Social Support on Burnout in Physician Mothers.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2022 Linos E, Lasky-Fink J, Halley M, Sarkar U, Mangurian C, Sabry H, Linos E, Jagsi R
• Preferences and Perceptions of Medical Error Disclosure Among Marginalized Populations: A Narrative Review.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2022 Olazo K, Wang K, Sierra M, Barr-Walker J, Sarkar U
• Extent of Follow-Up on Abnormal Cancer Screening in Multiple California Public Hospital Systems: A Retrospective Review.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Khoong EC, Rivadeneira NA, Pacca L, Schillinger D, Lown D, Babaria P, Gupta N, Pramanik R, Tran H, Whitezell T, Somsouk M, Sarkar U
• Factors Associated with Malpractice Claim Payout: An Analysis of Closed Emergency Department Claims.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2022 Gupta K, Szymonifka J, Rivadeneira NA, Khoong EC, Adler-Milstein J, Ross J, Sarkar U
• Diagnostic Trajectories in Primary Care at 12 Months: An Observational Cohort Study.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2022 Fontil V, Khoong EC, Lyles C, Rivadeneira NA, Olazo K, Hoskote M, Sarkar U
• Multispecialty Physician Online Survey Reveals That Burnout Related to Adverse Event Involvement May Be Mitigated by Peer Support.
  Journal of patient safety 2022 Gupta K, Rivadeneira NA, Lisker S, Chahal K, Gross N, Sarkar U
• Opportunities to mine EHRs for malpractice risk management and patient safety.
  Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management 2022 Julia Adler-Milstein, Urmimala Sarkar, Robert M Wachter
• Exploring factors associated with hepatitis B screening in a multilingual and diverse population.
  BMC health services research 2022 Chu JN, Nguyen TT, Rivadeneira NA, Hiatt RA, Sarkar U
• System-Level Factors Associated With Telephone and Video Visit Use: Survey of Safety-Net Clinicians During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  JMIR formative research 2022 Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Sierra M, Rivadeneira NA, Nijagal MA, Su G, Lyles CR, DeFries T, Tuot DS, Sarkar U
• Satisfaction can co-exist with hesitation: qualitative analysis of acceptability of telemedicine among multi-lingual patients in a safety-net healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  BMC health services research 2022 Nguyen MT, Garcia F, Juarez J, Zeng B, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Sarkar U, Su G, Lyles CR
• 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
• The Abrupt Expansion of Ambulatory Telemedicine: Implications for Patient Safety.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Khoong EC, Sharma AE, Gupta K, Adler-Milstein J, Sarkar U
• Do patient-reported outcome measures measure up? A qualitative study to examine perceptions and experiences with heart failure proms among diverse, low-income patients.
  Journal of patient-reported outcomes 2022 Davis J, Olazo K, Sierra M, Tarver ME, Caldwell B, Saha A, Lisker S, Lyles C, Sarkar U
• Warfarin Monitoring in Safety-Net Health Systems: Analysis by Race/Ethnicity and Language Preference.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Rivadeneira N, Sierra M, Fang MC, Gupta N, Pramanik R, Tran H, Whitezell T, Fontil V, Lee SY, Sarkar U
• A Root Cause Analysis of Barriers to Timely Colonoscopy in California Safety-Net Health Systems.
  Journal of patient safety 2022 Sharma AE, Lyson HC, Cherian R, Somsouk M, Schillinger D, Sarkar U
• Operationalizing Academic-Industry Partnerships to Advance Digital Health Equity: Lessons Learned.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2022 Lisker S, Sarkar U, Aguilera A, Lyles CR
• Improving Patient Safety in Public Hospitals: Developing Standard Measures to Track Medical Errors and Process Breakdowns.
  Journal of patient safety 2021 Ackerman SL, Gourley G, Le G, Williams P, Yazdany J, Sarkar U
• The reduction of race and gender bias in clinical treatment recommendations using clinician peer networks in an experimental setting.
  Nature communications 2021 Centola D, Guilbeault D, Sarkar U, Khoong E, Zhang J
• Focusing on Digital Health Equity.
  JAMA 2021 Lyles CR, Wachter RM, Sarkar U
• Evaluation of Sexual Harassment Policies at Medical Institutions to Understand Attention to Harassment of Physicians by Patients.
  JAMA network open 2021 Reed G, Ahmad SR, Khoong EC, Olazo K, Jagsi R, Mangurian C, Sarkar U
• Communicating Critical Information to Cancer Survivors: an Assessment of Survivorship Care Plans in Use in Diverse Healthcare Settings.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2021 Lyson HC, Haggstrom D, Bentz M, Obeng-Gyasi S, Dixit N, Sarkar U
• Barriers and Facilitators to the Implementation of Virtual Reality as a Pain Management Modality in Academic, Community, and Safety-Net Settings: Qualitative Analysis.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2021 Sarkar U, Lee JE, Nguyen KH, Lisker S, Lyles CR
• Health Equity in Artificial Intelligence and Primary Care Research: Protocol for a Scoping Review.
  JMIR research protocols 2021 Wang JX, Somani S, Chen JH, Murray S, Sarkar U
• Patient and caregiver factors in ambulatory incident reports: a mixed-methods analysis.
  BMJ open quality 2021 Sharma AE, Huang B, Stakeholder Research Advisory Council, Del Rosario JB, Yang J, Boscardin WJ, Sarkar U
• Alignment of Key Stakeholders' Priorities for Patient-Facing Tools in Digital Health: Mixed Methods Study.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2021 Lyles CR, Adler-Milstein J, Thao C, Lisker S, Nouri S, Sarkar U
• Impact of language preference and health literacy on health information-seeking experiences among a low-income, multilingual cohort.
  Patient education and counseling 2021 Chu JN, Sarkar U, Rivadeneira NA, Hiatt RA, Khoong EC
• Usability, inclusivity, and content evaluation of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in the United States.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Blacklow SO, Lisker S, Ng MY, Sarkar U, Lyles C
• Comparison of Diagnostic Recommendations from Individual Physicians versus the Collective Intelligence of Multiple Physicians in Ambulatory Cases Referred for Specialist Consultation.
  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making 2021 Khoong EC, Nouri SS, Tuot DS, Nundy S, Fontil V, Sarkar U
• Mobile health strategies for blood pressure self-management in urban populations with digital barriers: systematic review and meta-analyses.
  NPJ digital medicine 2021 Khoong EC, Olazo K, Rivadeneira NA, Thatipelli S, Barr-Walker J, Fontil V, Lyles CR, Sarkar U
• Imag(In)Ing the Nation.
  2021 Urmimala Sarkar
• Humanism Before Heroism in Medicine.
  JAMA 2021 Sarkar U, Cassel C
• Using incident reporting to understand and characterize sexual harassment of physicians by patients.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Hemmat S, Khoong EC, Olazo K, Sharma AE, Mangurian C, Fernandez A, Sarkar U
• The Role of Community-Based Organizations in Improving Chronic Care for Safety-Net Populations.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2021 Nguyen KH, Fields JD, Cemballi AG, Desai R, Gopalan A, Cruz T, Shah A, Akom A, Brown W, Sarkar U, Lyles CR
• Adaptive learning algorithms to optimize mobile applications for behavioral health: guidelines for design decisions.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Figueroa CA, Aguilera A, Chakraborty B, Modiri A, Aggarwal J, Deliu N, Sarkar U, Jay Williams J, Lyles CR
• A Qualitative Analysis of Outpatient Medication Use in Community Settings: Observed Safety Vulnerabilities and Recommendations for Improved Patient Safety.
  Journal of patient safety 2021 Lyson HC, Sharma AE, Cherian R, Patterson ES, McDonald KM, Lee SY, Sarkar U
• Clinician experience with telemedicine at a safety-net hospital network during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021 Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Lyles CR, Su G, DeFries T, Sarkar U, Tuot D
• The Intersection of Work and Home Challenges Faced by Physician Mothers During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Analysis.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2021 Halley MC, Mathews KS, Diamond LC, Linos E, Sarkar U, Mangurian C, Sabry H, Goyal MK, Olazo K, Miller EG, Jagsi R, Linos E
• Impact of digitally acquired peer diagnostic input on diagnostic confidence in outpatient cases: A pragmatic randomized trial.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Khoong EC, Fontil V, Rivadeneira NA, Hoskote M, Nundy S, Lyles CR, Sarkar U
• Real-world insights from launching remote peer-to-peer mentoring in a safety net healthcare delivery setting.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Lyles CR, Sarkar U, Patel U, Lisker S, Stark A, Guzman V, Patel A
• Anxiety Levels Among Physician Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2021 Linos E, Halley MC, Sarkar U, Mangurian C, Sabry H, Olazo K, Mathews KS, Diamond L, Goyal MK, Linos E, Jagsi R
• Catalyzing Navigation for Breast Cancer Survivorship (CaNBCS) in Safety-Net Settings: A Mixed Methods Study.
  Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center 2021 Dixit N, Sarkar U, Trejo E, Couey P, Rivadeneira NA, Ciccarelli B, Burke N
• Rapid Implementation of a Volunteer-Run Service to Combat Social Isolation in Hospitalized Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2021 Lyon ZM, Yang R, Savoie MB, Schear S, Dong J, Javaherian K, Hauser K, Sarkar U, Garcia-Grossman I
• Research Beyond the Ivory Tower: Partnering with Safety-Net Health Systems for Equity.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021 Mehta KM, Babaria P, Bibbins-Domingo K, Sarkar U
• Not Just Surviving, But Thriving: Overcoming Barriers to Career Advancement for Women Junior Faculty Clinician-Researchers.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2020 Zakaras JM, Sarkar U, Bibbins-Domingo K, Mangurian CV
• Correction: Recommendations From the Twitter Hashtag #DoctorsAreDickheads: Qualitative Analysis.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2020 Sharma AE, Mann Z, Cherian R, Del Rosario JB, Yang J, Sarkar U
• Socioeconomic status and colorectal cancer screening behaviors in a vulnerable multiethnic population.
  Ethnicity & health 2020 Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Rivadeneira NA, Torres JM, Sarkar U, Hiatt RA
• Recommendations From the Twitter Hashtag #DoctorsAreDickheads: Qualitative Analysis.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2020 Sharma AE, Mann Z, Cherian R, Del Rosario JB, Yang J, Sarkar U
• How effective are clinical decision support systems?
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2020 Sarkar U, Samal L
• Cancer patient perspectives on survivorship goals from the Smart Patients online community.
  Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 2020 Hoskote M, Le G, Cherian R, Zeiger R, Sarkar U
• Evaluating values-based message frames for type 2 diabetes prevention among Facebook audiences: Divergent values or common ground?
  Patient education and counseling 2020 Chittamuru D, Daniels R, Sarkar U, Schillinger D
• Sexual harassment and suicide.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2020 Sarkar U, Hemmat S, Linos E
• What Safety Events Are Reported For Ambulatory Care? Analysis of Incident Reports from a Patient Safety Organization.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2020 Sharma AE, Yang J, Del Rosario JB, Hoskote M, Rivadeneira NA, Sarkar U
• mHealth app using machine learning to increase physical activity in diabetes and depression: clinical trial protocol for the DIAMANTE Study.
  BMJ open 2020 Aguilera A, Figueroa CA, Hernandez-Ramos R, Sarkar U, Cemballi A, Gomez-Pathak L, Miramontes J, Yom-Tov E, Chakraborty B, Yan X, Xu J, Modiri A, Aggarwal J, Jay Williams J, Lyles CR
• Devil in the details: understanding the effects of providing electronic health record access to patients and families.
  BMJ quality & safety 2020 Sarkar U, Lyles C
• Using Electronic Health Record Portals to Improve Patient Engagement: Research Priorities and Best Practices.
  Annals of internal medicine 2020 Lyles CR, Nelson EC, Frampton S, Dykes PC, Cemballi AG, Sarkar U
• Patient characteristics associated with objective measures of digital health tool use in the United States: A literature review.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020 Nouri SS, Adler-Milstein J, Thao C, Acharya P, Barr-Walker J, Sarkar U, Lyles C
• The Use of Technology for Communicating With Clinicians or Seeking Health Information in a Multilingual Urban Cohort: Cross-Sectional Survey.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2020 Khoong EC, Rivadeneira NA, Hiatt RA, Sarkar U
• We Dropped the Reflex Hammer on Hypertension 20 Years Ago-Reply.
  JAMA neurology 2020 Betjemann J, Hemphill JC, Sarkar U
• Customized registry tool for tracking adherence to clinical guidelines for head and neck cancers: protocol for a pilot study.
  Pilot and feasibility studies 2020 Hickey MD, Lisker S, Brodie S, Vittinghoff E, Russell MD, Sarkar U
• Gaps in Treatment and Surveillance: Head and Neck Cancer Care in a Safety-Net Hospital.
  OTO open 2020 Yu K, Westbrook M, Brodie S, Lisker S, Vittinghoff E, Hua V, Russell M, Sarkar U
• Feasibility of implementing mobile technology-delivered mental health treatment in routine adult sickle cell disease care.
  Translational behavioral medicine 2020 Jonassaint CR, Kang C, Prussien KV, Yarboi J, Sanger MS, Wilson JD, De Castro L, Shah N, Sarkar U
• Knowledge and self-efficacy for caring for breast and colon cancer survivors among safety net primary care providers.
  Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 2020 Dixit N, Burke N, Rodriguez G, Sarkar U, Cicerelli B, DeVore JD, Nápoles AM
• Content shared on social media for national cancer survivors day 2018.
  PloS one 2020 Cherian R, Le G, Whall J, Gomez S, Sarkar U
• Evaluation of a Health Information Technology-Enabled Panel Management Platform to Improve Anticoagulation Control in a Low-Income Patient Population: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Design.
  JMIR research protocols 2020 Fontil V, Kazi D, Cherian R, Lee SY, Sarkar U
• Factors associated with biomedical research participation within community-based samples across 3 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers.
  Cancer 2020 Barrett NJ, Rodriguez EM, Iachan R, Hyslop T, Ingraham KL, Le GM, Martin K, Haring RC, Rivadeneira NA, Erwin DO, Fish LJ, Middleton D, Hiatt RA, Patierno SR, Sarkar U, Gage-Bouchard EA
• Advancing Cancer Control in San Francisco: Cancer Screening in Under-Represented Populations.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2020 Rivadeneira NA, Hoskote M, Le GM, Nguyen TT, Nápoles AM, Pasick RJ, Sarkar U, Hiatt RA
• Follow-up of incidental pulmonary nodules and association with mortality in a safety-net cohort.
  Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2019 Lee JS, Lisker S, Vittinghoff E, Cherian R, McCoy DB, Rybkin A, Su G, Sarkar U
• Are Patients Electronically Accessing Their Medical Records? Evidence From National Hospital Data.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2019 Lin SC, Lyles CR, Sarkar U, Adler-Milstein J
• Time for Neurologists to Drop the Reflex Hammer on Hypertension.
  JAMA neurology 2019 Betjemann J, Hemphill JC, Sarkar U
• Engaging users in the design of an mHealth, text message-based intervention to increase physical activity at a safety-net health care system.
  JAMIA open 2019 Avila-Garcia P, Hernandez-Ramos R, Nouri SS, Cemballi A, Sarkar U, Lyles CR, Aguilera A
• Reducing delays to diagnosis in ambulatory care settings: A macrocognition perspective.
  Applied ergonomics 2019 Patterson ES, Su G, Sarkar U
• Assessing Mobile Phone Digital Literacy and Engagement in User-Centered Design in a Diverse, Safety-Net Population: Mixed Methods Study.
  JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2019 Nouri SS, Avila-Garcia P, Cemballi AG, Sarkar U, Aguilera A, Lyles CR
• An electronic registry to improve adherence to active surveillance monitoring among men with prostate cancer at a safety-net hospital: protocol for a pilot study.
  Pilot and feasibility studies 2019 Cedars B, Lisker S, Borno HT, Kamal P, Breyer B, Sarkar U
• Collective intelligence in medical decision-making: a systematic scoping review.
  BMC medical informatics and decision making 2019 Radcliffe K, Lyson HC, Barr-Walker J, Sarkar U
• Evaluation of a Health Information Technology-Enabled Collective Intelligence Platform to Improve Diagnosis in Primary Care and Urgent Care Settings: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.
  JMIR research protocols 2019 Fontil V, Khoong EC, Hoskote M, Radcliffe K, Ratanawongsa N, Lyles CR, Sarkar U
• Social Media as a Tool to Promote Health Awareness: Results from an Online Cervical Cancer Prevention Study.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2019 Lyson HC, Le GM, Zhang J, Rivadeneira N, Lyles C, Radcliffe K, Pasick RJ, Sawaya G, Sarkar U, Centola D
• Sharing Stories, Searching for Solutions: Sexual Harassment of Physicians by Patients.
  The American journal of medicine 2019 Hemmat S, Khoong EC, Sharma AE, Sarkar U
• Defining and Measuring Adherence in Observational Studies Assessing Outcomes of Real-world Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review.
  European urology oncology 2019 Kith G, Lisker S, Sarkar U, Barr-Walker J, Breyer BN, Palmer NR
• Facts or stories? How to use social media for cervical cancer prevention: A multi-method study of the effects of sender type and content type on increased message sharing.
  Preventive medicine 2019 Zhang J, Le G, Larochelle D, Pasick R, Sawaya GF, Sarkar U, Centola D
• Adapting Patient Experience Data Collection Processes for Lower Literacy Patient Populations Using Tablets at the Point of Care.
  Medical care 2019 Tieu L, Hobbs A, Sarkar U, Nacev EC, Lyles CR
• Health Information-seeking Behaviors and Preferences of a Diverse, Multilingual Urban Cohort.
  Medical care 2019 Khoong EC, Le GM, Hoskote M, Rivadeneira NA, Hiatt RA, Sarkar U
• High perceived social support and hospital readmissions in an older multi-ethnic, limited English proficiency, safety-net population.
  BMC health services research 2019 Chan B, Goldman LE, Sarkar U, Guzman D, Critchfield J, Saha S, Kushel M
• Differences in Narrative Language in Evaluations of Medical Students by Gender and Under-represented Minority Status.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Rojek AE, Khanna R, Yim JWL, Gardner R, Lisker S, Hauer KE, Lucey C, Sarkar U
• Locating Draupadi in The Poetics and Politics of Performance in Contemporary India.
  The Journal of Dance Society for Documentation & History 2019 Urmimala Sarkar
• A Randomized Trial to Train Vulnerable Primary Care Patients to Use a Patient Portal.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2019 Lyles CR, Tieu L, Sarkar U, Kiyoi S, Sadasivaiah S, Hoskote M, Ratanawongsa N, Schillinger D
• Perceptions of cervical cancer prevention on Twitter uncovered by different sampling strategies.
  PloS one 2019 Le GM, Radcliffe K, Lyles C, Lyson HC, Wallace B, Sawaya G, Pasick R, Centola D, Sarkar U
• Standardization in Diverse Populations: Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in a Safety-Net Setting.
  Health literacy research and practice 2019 Cherian R, Sarkar U, Khoong EC, Ackerman S, Gourley G, Schillinger D
• Decisions and repercussions of second victim experiences for mothers in medicine (SAVE DR MoM).
  BMJ quality & safety 2019 Gupta K, Lisker S, Rivadeneira NA, Mangurian C, Linos E, Sarkar U
• Testing and improving the acceptability of a web-based platform for collective intelligence to improve diagnostic accuracy in primary care clinics.
  JAMIA open 2019 Fontil V, Radcliffe K, Lyson HC, Ratanawongsa N, Lyles C, Tuot D, Yuen K, Sarkar U
• Redesigning primary care in the safety net: A qualitative analysis of team-based care implementation.
  Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018 Lyson HC, Ackerman S, Lyles C, Schillinger D, Williams P, Gourley G, Gupta R, Handley M, Sarkar U
• Evaluation of an health-IT-enabled collective intelligence platform to improve diagnosis in primary care and urgent care settings: Study Design (Preprint).
  2018 Valy Fontil, Elaine Khoong, Mekhala Hoskote, Kate Radcliffe, Neda Ratanawongsa, Courtney Rees Lyles, Urmimala Sarkar
• Exploring Identities and Preferences for Intervention Among LGBTQ+ Young Adult Smokers Through Online Focus Groups.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2018 Ramo DE, Meacham M, Thrul J, Belohlavek A, Sarkar U, Humfleet G
• Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) prophylaxis patterns among patients with rheumatic diseases receiving high-risk immunosuppressant drugs.
  Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism 2018 Schmajuk G, Jafri K, Evans M, Shiboski S, Gianfrancesco M, Izadi Z, Patterson SL, Aggarwal I, Sarkar U, Dudley RA, Yazdany J
• Accurate Measurement In California's Safety-Net Health Systems Has Gaps And Barriers.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2018 Khoong EC, Cherian R, Rivadeneira NA, Gourley G, Yazdany J, Amarnath A, Schillinger D, Sarkar U
• Learning From Patients' Experiences Related To Diagnostic Errors Is Essential For Progress In Patient Safety.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2018 Giardina TD, Haskell H, Menon S, Hallisy J, Southwick FS, Sarkar U, Royse KE, Singh H
• Patient Engagement In Health Care Safety: An Overview Of Mixed-Quality Evidence.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2018 Sharma AE, Rivadeneira NA, Barr-Walker J, Stern RJ, Johnson AK, Sarkar U
• Innovative Implementation Studies Conducted in US Safety Net Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2018 Lyles CR, Handley MA, Ackerman SL, Schillinger D, Williams P, Westbrook M, Gourley G, Sarkar U
• Safety-net institutions in the US grapple with new cholesterol treatment guidelines: a qualitative analysis from the PHoENIX Network.
  Risk management and healthcare policy 2018 Fontil V, Lyles CR, Schillinger D, Handley MA, Ackerman S, Gourley G, Bibbins-Domingo K, Sarkar U
• Efficiency, Efficacy, and Power in the Implementation of a Medication Adherence Aid.
  Health literacy research and practice 2018 Cherian R, Sarkar U, Khoong EC, Ackerman S, Gourley G, Schillinger D
• Implementation of patient-centered prescription labeling in a safety-net ambulatory care network.
  American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists 2018 Khoong EC, Cherian R, Smith DE, Schillinger D, Wolf MS, Sarkar U
• Using Social Media to Target Cancer Prevention in Young Adults: Viewpoint.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2018 Sarkar U, Le GM, Lyles CR, Ramo D, Linos E, Bibbins-Domingo K
• PCPs knowledge and self-efficacy for caring for breast and colon cancer survivors.
  Journal of Clinical Oncology 2018 Niharika Dixit, Nancy Burke, Gladys Rodriguez, Urmimala Sarkar, Judy Quan, Joana Devore, Barbara Cicerelli, Anna Napoles
• Language-concordant automated telephone queries to assess medication adherence in a diverse population: a cross-sectional analysis of convergent validity with pharmacy claims.
  BMC health services research 2018 Ratanawongsa N, Quan J, Handley MA, Sarkar U, Schillinger D
• Representations of Codeine Misuse on Instagram: Content Analysis.
  JMIR public health and surveillance 2018 Cherian R, Westbrook M, Ramo D, Sarkar U
• Pragmatic Insights on Patient Safety Priorities and Intervention Strategies in Ambulatory Settings.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2017 Sarkar U, McDonald K, Motala A, Smith P, Zipperer L, Wachter RM, Shanman R, Shekelle PG
• 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
• Meaningful use in the safety net: a rapid ethnography of patient portal implementation at five community health centers in California.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2017 Ackerman SL, Sarkar U, Tieu L, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Hahn K, Hoskote M, Gourley G, Lyles C
• Use of Complementary Health Approaches Among Diverse Primary Care Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Association with Cardiometabolic Outcomes: From the SF Bay Collaborative Research Network (SF Bay CRN).
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2017 Handley MA, Quan J, Chao MT, Ratanawongsa N, Sarkar U, Emmons-Bell S, Schillinger D
• Efficiency and Interpretability of Text Paging Communication for Medical Inpatients: A Mixed-Methods Analysis.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Luxenberg A, Chan B, Khanna R, Sarkar U
• Implementation science for ambulatory care safety: a novel method to develop context-sensitive interventions to reduce quality gaps in monitoring high-risk patients.
  Implementation science : IS 2017 McDonald KM, Su G, Lisker S, Patterson ES, Sarkar U
• Implementation Science Workshop: Barriers and Facilitators to Increasing Mammography Screening Rates in California's Public Hospitals.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Clarity C, Gourley G, Lyles C, Ackerman S, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Sarkar U, Conigliaro J
• Performance Measurement and Target-Setting in California's Safety Net Health Systems.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2017 Hemmat S, Schillinger D, Lyles C, Ackerman S, Gourley G, Vittinghoff E, Handley M, Sarkar U
• Seeing the Effect of Health Care Delivery Innovation in the Safety Net.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Lyles C, Sarkar U
• Designing and Implementing an Electronic Patient Registry to Improve Warfarin Monitoring in the Ambulatory Setting.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2017 Lee SY, Cherian R, Ly I, Horton C, Salley AL, Sarkar U
• Online patient websites for electronic health record access among vulnerable populations: portals to nowhere?
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2017 Tieu L, Schillinger D, Sarkar U, Hoskote M, Hahn KJ, Ratanawongsa N, Ralston JD, Lyles CR
• Using health-system-wide data to understand hepatitis B virus prophylaxis and reactivation outcomes in patients receiving rituximab.
  Medicine 2017 Schmajuk G, Tonner C, Trupin L, Li J, Sarkar U, Ludwig D, Shiboski S, Sirota M, Dudley RA, Murray S, Yazdany J
• The Next Frontier in Communication and the ECLIPPSE Study: Bridging the Linguistic Divide in Secure Messaging.
  Journal of diabetes research 2017 Schillinger D, McNamara D, Crossley S, Lyles C, Moffet HH, Sarkar U, Duran N, Allen J, Liu J, Oryn D, Ratanawongsa N, Karter AJ
• Inadequate Utilization of Diagnostic Colonoscopy Following Abnormal FIT Results in an Integrated Safety-Net System.
  The American journal of gastroenterology 2016 Issaka RB, Singh MH, Oshima SM, Laleau VJ, Rachocki CD, Chen EH, Day LW, Sarkar U, Somsouk M
• Understanding the barriers to successful adoption and use of a mobile health information system in a community health center in São Paulo, Brazil: a cohort study.
  BMC medical informatics and decision making 2016 Rajan JV, Moura J, Gourley G, Kiso K, Sizilio A, Cortez AM, Riley LW, Veras MA, Sarkar U
• Changes in Medication Use After Dementia Diagnosis in an Observational Cohort of Individuals with Diabetes Mellitus.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2016 Sarkar U, Lyles C, Steinman M, Huang ES, Moffet HH, Whitmer RA, Warton EM, Karter AJ
• Root Cause Analysis of Ambulatory Adverse Drug Events That Present to the Emergency Department.
  Journal of patient safety 2016 Gertler SA, Coralic Z, López A, Stein JC, Sarkar U
• Minding the Gaps: Assessing Communication Outcomes of Electronic Preconsultation Exchange.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2016 Price EL, Sewell JL, Chen AH, Sarkar U
• Usability of Commercially Available Mobile Applications for Diverse Patients.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2016 Sarkar U, Gourley GI, Lyles CR, Tieu L, Clarity C, Newmark L, Singh K, Bates DW
• Characterizing a Naturalistic Decision Making Phenomenon: Loss of System Resilience Associated with Implementation of New Technology.
  Journal of cognitive engineering and decision making 2016 Patterson ES, Militello LG, Su G, Sarkar U
• Applying Sparse Machine Learning Methods to Twitter: Analysis of the 2012 Change in Pap Smear Guidelines. A Sequential Mixed-Methods Study.
  JMIR public health and surveillance 2016 Lyles CR, Godbehere A, Le G, El Ghaoui L, Sarkar U
• Sa1132 Limited Utilization of Diagnostic Colonoscopy Following Positive FIT in a Safety-Net System.
  Gastroenterology 2016 Rachel B. Issaka, Maneesh H. Singh, Victoria Laleau, Sachi Oshima, Carly Rachocki, Urmimala Sarkar, Lukejohn Day, Ma Somsouk
• Online public reactions to frequency of diagnostic errors in US outpatient care.
  Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2016 Giardina TD, Sarkar U, Gourley G, Modi V, Meyer AN, Singh H
• Qualitative analysis of programmatic initiatives to text patients with mobile devices in resource-limited health systems.
  BMC medical informatics and decision making 2016 Garg SK, Lyles CR, Ackerman S, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Gourley G, Aulakh V, Sarkar U
• Re: A systematic review of patients' experiences of adverse events in health care.
  International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care 2016 Sarkar U, Bates DW
• Facilitators and barriers to implementing electronic referral and/or consultation systems: a qualitative study of 16 health organizations.
  BMC health services research 2015 Tuot DS, Leeds K, Murphy EJ, Sarkar U, Lyles CR, Mekonnen T, Chen AH
• Tip of the iceberg: patient safety incidents in primary care.
  BMJ quality & safety 2015 Sarkar U
• Barriers and Facilitators to Online Portal Use Among Patients and Caregivers in a Safety Net Health Care System: A Qualitative Study.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2015 Tieu L, Sarkar U, Schillinger D, Ralston JD, Ratanawongsa N, Pasick R, Lyles CR
• Coordinated performance measurement and improvement efforts in California's safety net systems: early experience and lessons.
  Implementation Science 2015 Urmimala Sarkar, David Lown, Sara Ackerman, Courtney Lyles, Gato Gourley, Dean Schillinger, Margaret A Handley
• 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
• A Mixed-Methods Study of Patient-Provider E-Mail Content in a Safety-Net Setting.
  Journal of health communication 2015 Mirsky JB, Tieu L, Lyles C, Sarkar U
• Refilling medications through an online patient portal: consistent improvements in adherence across racial/ethnic groups.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2015 Lyles CR, Sarkar U, Schillinger D, Ralston JD, Allen JY, Nguyen R, Karter AJ
• The Canary in the Coal Mine Tweets: Social Media Reveals Public Perceptions of Non-Medical Use of Opioids.
  PloS one 2015 Chan B, Lopez A, Sarkar U
• Reach and Validity of an Objective Medication Adherence Measure Among Safety Net Health Plan Members with Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study.
  Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2015 Ratanawongsa N, Karter AJ, Quan J, Parker MM, Handley M, Sarkar U, Schmittdiel JA, Schillinger D
• Readability assessment of patient-provider electronic messages in a primary care setting.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2015 Mirsky JB, Tieu L, Lyles C, Sarkar U
• Connecting the Dots: Health Information Technology Expansion and Health Disparities.
  PLoS medicine 2015 Lyles C, Schillinger D, Sarkar U
• Disclosure of complementary health approaches among low income and racially diverse safety net patients with diabetes.
  Patient education and counseling 2015 Chao MT, Handley MA, Quan J, Sarkar U, Ratanawongsa N, Schillinger D
• Automated Telephone Self-Management Support for Diabetes in a Low-Income Health Plan: A Health Care Utilization and Cost Analysis.
  Population health management 2015 Quan J, Lee AK, Handley MA, Ratanawongsa N, Sarkar U, Tseng S, Schillinger D
• Health literacy, vulnerable patients, and health information technology use: where do we go from here?
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Lyles CR, Sarkar U
• 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
• A Qualitative Analysis of Physician Perspectives on Missed and Delayed Outpatient Diagnosis: The Focus on System-Related Factors.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2014 Sarkar U, Simchowitz B, Bonacum D, Strull W, Lopez A, Rotteau L, Shojania KG
• Getting a technology-based diabetes intervention ready for prime time: a review of usability testing studies.
  Current diabetes reports 2014 Lyles CR, Sarkar U, Osborn CY
• "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
• A large-scale quantitative analysis of latent factors and sentiment in online doctor reviews.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2014 Wallace BC, Paul MJ, Sarkar U, Trikalinos TA, Dredze M
• Disclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Diverse Safety Net Patients with Diabetes.
  Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2014 Maria T. Chao, Margaret Handley, Judy Quan, Urmimala Sarkar, Neda Ratanawongsa, Dean Schillinger
• Low socioeconomic status is associated with increased risk for hypoglycemia in diabetes patients: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2014 Berkowitz SA, Karter AJ, Lyles CR, Liu JY, Schillinger D, Adler NE, Moffet HH, Sarkar U
• Diabetes health information technology innovation to improve quality of life for health plan members in urban safety net.
  The Journal of ambulatory care management 2014 Ratanawongsa N, Handley MA, Sarkar U, Quan J, Pfeifer K, Soria C, Schillinger D
• Use of the refill function through an online patient portal is associated with improved adherence to statins in an integrated health system.
  Medical care 2014 Sarkar U, Lyles CR, Parker MM, Allen J, Nguyen R, Moffet HH, Schillinger D, Karter AJ
• Expanding the Universal Medication Schedule: a patient-centred approach.
  BMJ open 2014 Bailey SC, Wolf MS, Lopez A, Russell A, Chen AH, Schillinger D, Moy G, Sarkar U
• Care partners and online patient portals.
  JAMA 2014 Sarkar U, Bates DW
• Patient Safety in Outpatient Care.
  Patient Safety 2014 Urmimala Sarkar
• Innovation and transformation in California's safety net health care settings: an inside perspective.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2013 Lyles CR, Aulakh V, Jameson W, Schillinger D, Yee H, Sarkar U
• Long-term doctor-patient relationships: patient perspective from online reviews.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2013 Detz A, López A, Sarkar U
• Patient-provider communication and trust in relation to use of an online patient portal among diabetes patients: The Diabetes and Aging Study.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2013 Lyles CR, Sarkar U, Ralston JD, Adler N, Schillinger D, Moffet HH, Huang ES, Karter AJ
• Safety events during an automated telephone self-management support intervention.
  Journal of diabetes science and technology 2013 Lyles CR, Schillinger D, Lopez A, Handley M, Ratanawongsa N, Sarkar U
• Trends in on-label and off-label modafinil use in a nationally representative sample.
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Peñaloza RA, Sarkar U, Claman DM, Omachi TA
• Additional considerations for 'Harnessing the cloud of patient experience'.
  BMJ quality & safety 2013 Lyles CR, Sarkar U
• "5 mins of uncomfyness is better than dealing with cancer 4 a lifetime": an exploratory qualitative analysis of cervical and breast cancer screening dialogue on Twitter.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2013 Lyles CR, López A, Pasick R, Sarkar U
• Points for improvement: performance measurement for glycemic control in diabetes patients in a safety-net population.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2013 Baxi S, Lakin J, Lyles CR, Berkowitz S, Horton C, Sarkar U
• Do clinical standards for diabetes care address excess risk for hypoglycemia in vulnerable patients? A systematic review.
  Health services research 2013 Berkowitz SA, Aragon K, Hines J, Seligman H, Lee S, Sarkar U
• Access, interest, and attitudes toward electronic communication for health care among patients in the medical safety net.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2013 Schickedanz A, Huang D, Lopez A, Cheung E, Lyles CR, Bodenheimer T, Sarkar U
• Ice cream rounds.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2013 Cohen S, Sarkar U
• Communication about diabetes risk factors during between-visit encounters.
  The American journal of managed care 2012 Lyles CR, Grothaus L, Reid RJ, Sarkar U, Ralston JD
• Electronic health record implementation in outpatient safety-net settings in California.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2012 López A, Patterson AM, John V, Sarkar U
• Abstract ED04-03: Health literacy and health information technology: Promises and pitfalls.
  Health Economics, Outcomes, and Policy Research 2012 Urmimala Sarkar
• Lower health literacy is associated with poorer health status and outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2012 Omachi TA, Sarkar U, Yelin EH, Blanc PD, Katz PP
• Challenges of making a diagnosis in the outpatient setting: a multi-site survey of primary care physicians.
  BMJ quality & safety 2012 Sarkar U, Bonacum D, Strull W, Spitzmueller C, Jin N, López A, Giardina TD, Meyer AN, Singh H
• Signal and noise: applying a laboratory trigger tool to identify adverse drug events among primary care patients.
  BMJ quality & safety 2012 Brenner S, Detz A, López A, Horton C, Sarkar U
• Evaluation of language concordant, patient-centered drug label instructions.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2012 Bailey SC, Sarkar U, Chen AH, Schillinger D, Wolf MS
• A cross-sectional study of barriers to personal health record use among patients attending a safety-net clinic.
  PloS one 2012 Hilton JF, Barkoff L, Chang O, Halperin L, Ratanawongsa N, Sarkar U, Leykin Y, Muñoz RF, Thom DH, Kahn JS
• Developing multilingual prescription instructions for patients with limited english proficiency.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2012 Bailey SC, Hasnain-Wynia R, Chen AH, Sarkar U, Schoua-Glusberg A, Lindquist LA, Schillinger D, Wolf MS
• Quasi-experimental trial of diabetes Self-Management Automated and Real-Time Telephonic Support (SMARTSteps) in a Medicaid managed care plan: study protocol.
  BMC health services research 2012 Ratanawongsa N, Handley MA, Quan J, Sarkar U, Pfeifer K, Soria C, Schillinger D
• What patients say about their doctors online: a qualitative content analysis.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2012 López A, Detz A, Ratanawongsa N, Sarkar U
• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use among persons with chronic kidney disease in the United States.
  Annals of family medicine 2011 Plantinga L, Grubbs V, Sarkar U, Hsu CY, Hedgeman E, Robinson B, Saran R, Geiss L, Burrows NR, Eberhardt M, Powe N, CDC CKD Surveillance Team
• The wrong tool for the job: diabetes public health programs and practice guidelines.
  American journal of public health 2011 Sarkar U, López A, Black K, Schillinger D
• Food insecurity and hypoglycemia among safety net patients with diabetes.
  Archives of internal medicine 2011 Seligman HK, Jacobs EA, Lopez A, Sarkar U, Tschann J, Fernandez A
• Adverse drug events in U.S. adult ambulatory medical care.
  Health services research 2011 Sarkar U, López A, Maselli JH, Gonzales R
• Adherence to laboratory test requests by patients with diabetes: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).
  The American journal of managed care 2011 Moffet HH, Parker MM, Sarkar U, Schillinger D, Fernandez A, Adler NE, Adams AS, Karter AJ
• Social disparities in internet patient portal use in diabetes: evidence that the digital divide extends beyond access.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2011 Sarkar U, Karter AJ, Liu JY, Adler NE, Nguyen R, López A, Schillinger D
• Validation of self-reported health literacy questions among diverse English and Spanish-speaking populations.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Sarkar U, Schillinger D, López A, Sudore R
• Erratum to: Hypoglycemia is More Common Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Limited Health Literacy: The Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).
  Journal of General Internal Medicine 2010 Urmimala Sarkar, Andrew J. Karter, Jennifer Y. Liu, Howard H. Moffet, Nancy E. Adler, Dean Schillinger
• Patient-physicians' information exchange in outpatient cardiac care: time for a heart to heart?
  Patient education and counseling 2010 Sarkar U, Schillinger D, Bibbins-Domingo K, Nápoles A, Karliner L, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Hypoglycemia is more common among type 2 diabetes patients with limited health literacy: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Sarkar U, Karter AJ, Liu JY, Moffet HH, Adler NE, Schillinger D
• What happens between visits? Adverse and potential adverse events among a low-income, urban, ambulatory population with diabetes.
  Quality & safety in health care 2010 Sarkar U, Handley MA, Gupta R, Tang A, Murphy E, Seligman HK, Shojania KG, Schillinger D
• The literacy divide: health literacy and the use of an internet-based patient portal in an integrated health system-results from the diabetes study of northern California (DISTANCE).
  Journal of health communication 2010 Sarkar U, Karter AJ, Liu JY, Adler NE, Nguyen R, Lopez A, Schillinger D
• Numbers don't lie, but do they tell the whole story?
  Diabetes care 2009 Schillinger D, Sarkar U
• Refocusing the lens: patient safety in ambulatory chronic disease care.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2009 Sarkar U, Wachter RM, Schroeder SA, Schillinger D
• Frequency of failure to inform patients of clinically significant outpatient test results.
  Archives of internal medicine 2009 Casalino LP, Dunham D, Chin MH, Bielang R, Kistner EO, Karrison TG, Ong MK, Sarkar U, McLaughlin MA, Meltzer DO
• Self-efficacy as a marker of cardiac function and predictor of heart failure hospitalization and mortality in patients with stable coronary heart disease: findings from the Heart and Soul Study.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2009 Sarkar U, Ali S, Whooley MA
• Does lower diabetes-related numeracy lead to increased risk for hypoglycemic events?
  Annals of internal medicine 2008 Sarkar U, Schillinger D
• Risk factors for death in adults with severe asthma.
  Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology 2008 Omachi TA, Iribarren C, Sarkar U, Tolstykh I, Yelin EH, Katz PP, Blanc PD, Eisner MD
• Use of an interactive, telephone-based self-management support program to identify adverse events among ambulatory diabetes patients.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2008 Sarkar U, Handley MA, Gupta R, Tang A, Murphy E, Seligman HK, Shojania KG, Schillinger D
• Preferences for self-management support: findings from a survey of diabetes patients in safety-net health systems.
  Patient education and counseling 2007 Sarkar U, Piette JD, Gonzales R, Lessler D, Chew LD, Reilly B, Johnson J, Brunt M, Huang J, Regenstein M, Schillinger D
• PROSPECTIVE RISK FACTORS FOR DEATH AMONG ADULTS WITH SEVERE ASTHMA.
  CHEST Journal 2007 Theodore A. Omachi, Carlos Iribarren, Urmimala Sarkar, Irina Tolstykh, Edward H. Yelin, Patricia P. Katz, Paul D. Blanc, Mark D. Eisner
• SynopSIS: integrating physician sign-out with the electronic medical record.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2007 Sarkar U, Carter JT, Omachi TA, Vidyarthi AR, Cucina R, Bokser S, van Eaton E, Blum M
• Factors associated with longer ED lengths of stay.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2007 Gardner RL, Sarkar U, Maselli JH, Gonzales R
• Self-efficacy and health status in patients with coronary heart disease: findings from the heart and soul study.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2007 Sarkar U, Ali S, Whooley MA
• Is self-efficacy associated with diabetes self-management across race/ethnicity and health literacy?
  Diabetes care 2006 Sarkar U, Fisher L, Schillinger D
• Population-based case-control investigation of risk factors for leptospirosis during an urban epidemic.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2002 Sarkar U, Nascimento SF, Barbosa R, Martins R, Nuevo H, Kalofonos I, Kalafanos I, Grunstein I, Flannery B, Dias J, Riley LW, Reis MG, Ko AI