Naomi Bardach, MD

Dr. Bardach is a Professor of Pediatrics and Policy in the Department of Pediatrics and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco. She is Vice Chair of Health Services Research in the Department of Pediatrics. 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.
Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
M.A.S. in Clinical Research, 2012 - Graduate Division (Advance Training in Clinical Research), University of California, San Francisco
M.D., 2003 - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Residency, - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Honors and Awards
  • 2015 Nemours Child Health Services Research Award, 2015
Websites

  1. Shapiro DJ, Coon ER, Kaiser SV, Grupp-Phelan J, Hersh AL, Bardach NS. Trends in dexamethasone treatment for asthma in U.S. emergency departments. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2024. PMID: 39180231


  2. Shapiro DJ, Geanacopoulos AT, Subramanian SV, Wu AC, Bardach NS, Oke I. Antibiotic Treatment and Health Care Use in Children and Adolescents With Conjunctivitis. JAMA ophthalmology 2024. PMID: 38935389


  3. Le Marchand C, Rizzo K, Nakamura R, Bornstein L, Bardach NS, Pritchard D, Medlin S, Ahmed A, Cornejo M, Moser L, Bakhtar O, Silver LD, Iton A, May L, Kimsey P, Sud SR, Pan E, Jacobson K, Glaser C. Implementation and Performance of a Point-of-Care COVID-19 Test Program in 4,000 California Schools. The Journal of pediatrics 2024. PMID: 38945441


  4. Chu JN, Wong J, Bardach NS, Allen IE, Barr-Walker J, Sierra M, Sarkar U, Khoong EC. Association between language discordance and unplanned hospital readmissions or emergency department revisits: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ quality & safety 2023. PMID: 38160059


  5. Studenmund C, Lyndon A, Stotts JR, Peralta-Neel C, Sharma AE, Bardach NS. What do patients and families observe about pediatric safety?: A thematic analysis of real-time narratives. Journal of hospital medicine 2024. PMID: 38741257


  6. Hoffmann JA, Corboy JB, Liu L, Cieslak K, Pergjika A, Patel TR, Bardach NS, Alpern ER. Use of Electronic Health Record-Based Measures to Assess Quality of Care for Pediatric Agitation. Hospital pediatrics 2024. PMID: 38618654


  7. Petragallo R, Luximon DC, Neylon J, Bardach NS, Ritter T, Lamb JM. Clinical physicists' perceptions of weekly chart checks and the potential role for automated image review assessed by structured interviews. Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2024. PMID: 38650177


  8. Karvonen KL, Bardach NS. Making lemonade out of lemons: an approach to combining variable race and ethnicity data from hospitals for quality and safety efforts. BMJ quality & safety 2023. PMID: 37714699


  9. Cuneo AA, Sifflet C, Bardach N, Ly N, von Scheven E, Perito ER. Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Informed Care in Pediatric Chronic Illness: A Healthcare Provider Survey. The Journal of pediatrics 2023. PMID: 37353148


  10. Desai AD, Tolpadi A, Parast L, Esporas M, Britto MT, Gidengil C, Wilson K, Bardach NS, Basco WT, Brittan MS, Johnson DP, Wood KE, Yung S, Dawley E, Fiore D, Gregoire L, Hodo LN, Leggett B, Piazza K, Sartori LF, Weber DE, Mangione-Smith R. Improving the Quality of Written Discharge Instructions: A Multisite Collaborative Project. Pediatrics 2023. PMID: 37078242


  11. Congdon JL, Bardach NS, Franck LS, Brindis CD, John Boscardin W, Carrasco Z, Cabana MD, Dehlendorf C. Postpartum Family Planning in Pediatrics: A Survey of Parental Contraceptive Needs and Health Services Preferences. Academic pediatrics 2023. PMID: 36958531


  12. Hoffmann JA, Krass P, Rodean J, Bardach NS, Cafferty R, Coker TR, Cutler GJ, Hall M, Morse RB, Nash KA, Parikh K, Zima BT. Follow-up After Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Visits. Pediatrics 2023. PMID: 36775807


  13. 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, Wiener B, Mangione-Smith R. Collaborative to Increase Lethal Means Counseling for Caregivers of Youth With Suicidality. Pediatrics 2022. PMID: 36321386


  14. 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. Utility of illness symptoms for predicting COVID-19 infections in children. BMC pediatrics 2022. PMID: 36357876


  15. Maya S, McCorvie R, Jacobson K, Shete PB, Bardach N, Kahn JG. COVID-19 Testing Strategies for K-12 Schools in California: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. International journal of environmental research and public health 2022. PMID: 35954728


  16. Bucholz EM, Toomey SL, McCulloch CE, Bardach N. Adjusting for Social Risk Factors in Pediatric Quality Measures: Adding to the Evidence Base. 2022. PMID: 35339237


  17. 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. Development and Testing of an Emergency Department Quality Measure for Pediatric Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm. 2022. PMID: 35339249


  18. Bardach NS, Harder VS, McCulloch CE, Thombley R, Shaw JS, Hart VC, Cabana MD. Follow-Up After Asthma Emergency Department Visits and Its Relationship With Subsequent Asthma-Related Utilization. 2022. PMID: 35339239


  19. Petragallo R, Bardach N, Ramirez E, Lamb JM. Barriers and facilitators to clinical implementation of radiotherapy treatment planning automation: A survey study of medical dosimetrists. 2022. PMID: 35239234


  20. Bardach NS, Stotts JR, Fiore DM, Sarkar U, Sharma AE, Boscardin WJ, Avina L, Peralta-Neel C, Rosenbluth G. Family Input for Quality and Safety (FIQS): Using mobile technology for in-hospital reporting from families and patients. 2022. PMID: 35535946


  21. Madhav Vissa, Marsha Treadwell, Naomi Bardach. Improving Completion Rates of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasounds in Children with Sickle Cell Disease Using Quality Improvement Efforts: In-Clinic Vs. Population-Based Assessments. 2021. PMID:


  22. Mahony T, Harder VS, Ang N, McCulloch CE, Shaw JS, Thombley R, Cabana MD, Kleinman LC, Bardach NS. Weekend vs. Weekday Asthma-Related Emergency Department Utilization. Academic pediatrics 2021. PMID: 34543671


  23. Geena Zhou, Prachi Singh, Emily R. Perito, Naomi Bardach, Nicole Penwill, William Burrough, Ann Cheung, Margaret Nguyen, Shalini Mittal, Grace Cheng, Mia-Ashley Spad. Optimizing COVID-19 Symptom Screening in the Pediatric Population. 2021. PMID:


  24. 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. Preventing COVID-19 Transmission in Education Settings. Pediatrics 2021. PMID: 34112660


  25. 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 Settings (PRIS) Network. Quality of Care for Youth Hospitalized for Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm. Academic pediatrics 2021. PMID: 34058402


  26. 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. 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. PMID: 33849340


  27. Bardach NS, Lam R, Jasik CB. Assessment of automated clinical trial recruitment and enrolment using patient-facing technology. BMJ health & care informatics 2021. PMID: 33504589


  28. 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 Keller, Theodore D Ruel, Auritte Cohen-Ross, Araceli Leon, Naomi S Bardach. 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. PMID:


  29. 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. Improving Preventive Care for Children With Sickle Cell Anemia: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Pediatric quality & safety 2020. PMID: 33409431


  30. Harder VS, Shaw JS, McCulloch CE, Kill L, Robinson KJ, Shepard MT, Cabana MD, Bardach NS. Statewide Asthma Learning Collaborative Participation and Asthma-Related Emergency Department Use. Pediatrics 2020. PMID: 33229467


  31. Bardach NS. How What You Measure Matters: Risk-Adjusted Length of Stay and Observation Status. Pediatrics 2020. PMID: 33023990


  32. Bardach NS, Doupnik SK, Rodean J, Zima BT, Gay JC, Nash C, Tanguturi Y, Coker TR. ED Visits and Readmissions After Follow-up for Mental Health Hospitalization. Pediatrics 2020. PMID: 32404433


  33. Bardach NS, Neel C, Kleinman LC, McCulloch CE, Thombley R, Zima BT, Grupp-Phelan J, Coker TR, Cabana MD. Depression, Anxiety, and Emergency Department Use for Asthma. Pediatrics 2019. PMID: 31554667


  34. Cabana MD, Kanter J, Marsh AM, Treadwell MJ, Rowland M, Stemmler P, Bardach NS. Barriers to Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Guideline Recommendations. Global pediatric health 2019. PMID: 31106244


  35. Kaiser SV, Lam R, Cabana MD, Bekmezian A, Bardach NS, Auerbach A, Rehm RS, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network. 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. PMID: 31020879


  36. Grob R, Schlesinger M, Barre LR, Bardach N, Lagu T, Shaller D, Parker AM, Martino SC, Finucane ML, Cerully JL, Palimaru A. What Words Convey: The Potential for Patient Narratives to Inform Quality Improvement. The Milbank quarterly 2019. PMID: 30883954


  37. Kaiser SV, Lam R, Joseph GB, McCulloch C, Hsia RY, Cabana MD, Bardach NS. Limitations of Using Pediatric Respiratory Illness Readmissions to Compare Hospital Performance. Journal of hospital medicine 2018. PMID: 30484778


  38. Doupnik SK, Lawlor J, Zima BT, Coker TR, Bardach NS, Rehm KP, Gay JC, Hall M, Berry JG. Mental Health Conditions and Unplanned Hospital Readmissions in Children. Journal of hospital medicine 2018. PMID: 29964274


  39. Bardach NS, Burkhart Q, Richardson LP, Roth CP, Murphy JM, Parast L, Gidengil CA, Marmet J, Britto MT, Mangione-Smith R. Hospital-Based Quality Measures for Pediatric Mental Health Care. Pediatrics 2018. PMID: 29853624


  40. Bardach NS. 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. PMID: 29237006


  41. Bardach NS. Raising up the voices of the closest observers of care. BMJ quality & safety 2017. PMID: 29217696


  42. Gay JC, Zima BT, Coker TR, Doupnik SK, Hall M, Rodean J, O'Neill M, Morse R, Rehm KP, Berry JG, Bardach NS. Postacute Care after Pediatric Hospitalizations for a Primary Mental Health Condition. The Journal of pediatrics 2017. PMID: 29162345


  43. Parast L, Bardach NS, Burkhart Q, Richardson LP, Murphy JM, Gidengil CA, Britto MT, Elliott MN, Mangione-Smith R. Development of New Quality Measures for Hospital-Based Care of Suicidal Youth. Academic pediatrics 2017. PMID: 29100860


  44. 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. 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. PMID:


  45. Cohen E, Hall M, Lopert R, Bruen B, Chamberlain LJ, Bardach N, Gedney J, Zima BT, Berry JG. High-Expenditure Pharmaceutical Use Among Children in Medicaid. Pediatrics 2017. PMID: 28765380


  46. Doupnik SK, Lawlor J, Zima BT, Coker TR, Bardach NS, Hall M, Berry JG. Mental Health Conditions and Medical and Surgical Hospital Utilization. Pediatrics 2016. PMID: 27940716


  47. Zima BT, Rodean J, Hall M, Bardach NS, Coker TR, Berry JG. Psychiatric Disorders and Trends in Resource Use in Pediatric Hospitals. Pediatrics 2016. PMID: 27940773


  48. Stephanie K. Doupnik, Bonnie T. Zima, John Lawlor, Tumaini R. Coker, Naomi S. Bardach, Matthew Hall, Jay G. Berry. 5.58 THE INFLUENCE OF COMORBID PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL UTILIZATION. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2016. PMID:


  49. 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. Variation in Quality of Urgent Health Care Provided During Commercial Virtual Visits. JAMA internal medicine 2016. PMID: 27042813


  50. Bardach NS, Lyndon A, Asteria-Peñaloza R, Goldman LE, Lin GA, Dudley RA. From the closest observers of patient care: a thematic analysis of online narrative reviews of hospitals. BMJ quality & safety 2015. PMID: 26677215


  51. Duseja R, Bardach NS, Lin GA, Yazdany J, Dean ML, Clay TH, Boscardin WJ, Dudley RA. Revisit rates and associated costs after an emergency department encounter: a multistate analysis. Annals of internal medicine 2015. PMID: 26030633


  52. Bardach NS, Hibbard JH, Greaves F, 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. PMID: 25934100


  53. Chen CL, Lin GA, Bardach NS, Clay TH, Boscardin WJ, Gelb AW, Maze M, Gropper MA, Dudley RA. Preoperative medical testing in Medicare patients undergoing cataract surgery. The New England journal of medicine 2015. PMID: 25875258


  54. Lin GA, Bardach NS. Editorial: Moving Patients from Consultants to Partners in Health Care System Redesign: Achieving Meaningful Engagement. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2014. PMID: 26111377


  55. Cabana MD, Bardach NS. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. The Journal of pediatrics 2014. PMID: 25444532


  56. Yazdany J, Marafino BJ, Dean ML, Bardach NS, Duseja R, Ward MM, Dudley RA. Thirty-day hospital readmissions in systemic lupus erythematosus: predictors and hospital- and state-level variation. Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) 2014. PMID: 25110993


  57. Lee HC, Bardach NS, Maselli JH, Gonzales R. Emergency department visits in the neonatal period in the United States. Pediatric emergency care 2014. PMID: 24759490


  58. Marafino BJ, Davies JM, Bardach NS, Dean ML, Dudley RA. 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. PMID: 24786209


  59. Kaiser SV, Asteria-Penaloza R, Vittinghoff E, Rosenbluth G, Cabana MD, Bardach NS. National patterns of codeine prescriptions for children in the emergency department. Pediatrics 2014. PMID: 24753533


  60. Bardach NS, Coker TR, Zima BT, Murphy JM, Knapp P, Richardson LP, Edwall G, Mangione-Smith R. Common and costly hospitalizations for pediatric mental health disorders. Pediatrics 2014. PMID: 24639270


  61. Bardach NS, Shih SC, Dudley RA. Physician payment incentives to improve care quality--reply. JAMA 2014. PMID: 24430326


  62. Begum R, Smith Ryan M, Winther CH, Wang JJ, Bardach NS, Parsons AH, Shih SC, Dudley RA. Small practices' experience with EHR, quality measurement, and incentives. The American journal of managed care 2013. PMID: 24511883


  63. Bardach NS, Wang JJ, De Leon SF, Shih SC, Boscardin WJ, Goldman LE, Dudley RA. Effect of pay-for-performance incentives on quality of care in small practices with electronic health records: a randomized trial. JAMA 2013. PMID: 24026600


  64. Bardach NS, Vittinghoff E, Asteria-Peñaloza R, Edwards JD, Yazdany J, Lee HC, Boscardin WJ, Cabana MD, Dudley RA. Measuring hospital quality using pediatric readmission and revisit rates. Pediatrics 2013. PMID: 23979094


  65. Bardach NS, Asteria-Peñaloza R, Boscardin WJ, Dudley RA. The relationship between commercial website ratings and traditional hospital performance measures in the USA. BMJ quality & safety 2012. PMID: 23178860


  66. Aaronson DS, Bardach NS, Lin GA, Chattopadhyay A, Goldman LE, 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. PMID: 22093186


  67. Lee HC, Chien AT, Bardach NS, Clay T, Gould JB, 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. PMID: 21536958


  68. Bardach NS, Chien AT, Dudley RA. Small numbers limit the use of the inpatient pediatric quality indicators for hospital comparison. Academic pediatrics 2010. PMID: 20599180


  69. Bardach NS, Cabana MD. The unintended consequences of quality improvement. Current opinion in pediatrics 2009. PMID: 19773653


  70. Bardach NS, Huang J, Brand R, Hsu J. 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. PMID: 19615081


  71. Haber RJ, Bardach NS, Vedanthan R, Gillum LA, Haber LA, Dhaliwal GS. Preparing fourth-year medical students to teach during internship. Journal of general internal medicine 2006. PMID: 16704402


  72. Bardach N, Zhao S, Pantilat S, Johnston SC. Adjustment for do-not-resuscitate orders reverses the apparent in-hospital mortality advantage for minorities. The American journal of medicine 2005. PMID: 15808138


  73. Bardach NS, Olson SJ, Elkins JS, Smith WS, Lawton MT, Johnston SC. Regionalization of treatment for subarachnoid hemorrhage: a cost-utility analysis. Circulation 2004. PMID: 15117848


  74. Bardach NS, Vedanthan R, Haber RJ. 'Teaching to teach': enhancing fourth year medical students' teaching skills. Medical education 2003. PMID: 14629425


  75. Bardach NS, Zhao S, Gress DR, Lawton MT, Johnston SC. Association between subarachnoid hemorrhage outcomes and number of cases treated at California hospitals. Stroke 2002. PMID: 12105365