Liz Goldman, MD, MAS

Professor of Clinical Medicine
General Internal Medicine ZSFG

Dr. Goldman is a practicing primary care physician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General and is the Medical Director for CalAIM Enhanced Care Management Program in the San Francisco Health Network and medical lead for the Emergency Department Case Management team, an innovative interdisciplinary intensive case management program assisting the most socially and medically complex clients in San Francisco. In addition, she also works as a Clinical Informaticist in the DPH Office of Health Informatics where she is the Director of Research and Evaluation Analytics. Finally, she supervises residents in the Richard Fine People's Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Her research and policy work focuses on improving and transforming health systems for underserved diverse populations. She has developed and implemented systems innovations that improve care transitions, value of care, and care coordination efforts across medical and behavioral health settings.

As part of her work to improve the science of quality measurement, she led the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Validation Project which assessed the accuracy of California patient discharge data, and was awarded AHRQ grant funding to evaluate the impact of administrative data quality on hospital performance metrics. Her expertise in using administrative data for quality assessments has been nationally recognized, through her participation in the AHRQ Quality Indicator Expert Panel.

Publications: 

Efficacy of a Primary Care-Based Mobile Application to Increase Hepatitis C Screening Among Asian Americans: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Open forum infectious diseases

Khalili M, Kim NJ, Tsoh JY, Walsh JME, Elizabeth Goldman L, Park H, Lau I, Wong C, Gildengorin G, Nguyen TT

Lessons Learned From a New Reverse-Integration Model to Improve Primary Care Screening in Community Mental Health Settings.

Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)

Mangurian C, Thomas MD, Mitsuishi F, Goldman LE, Niu G, Handley MA, Riano NS, Hwong A, Essock S, Dilley J, Newcomer JW, Schillinger D

Health Within Reach-a Patient-Centered Intervention to Increase Hepatitis B Screening Among Asian Americans: a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal of general internal medicine

Khalili M, Kim NJ, Tsoh JY, Walsh JME, Goldman LE, Gildengorin G, Wong C, Tran MT, Yu E, Sharp MT, LeTran VH, Nguyen VV, Nguyen TT

Informatics response to address the COVID-19 pandemic in a safety net healthcare system.

JAMIA Open

Sadasivaiah S, Shaffer E, Enanoria W, Su G, Goldman S, Scarafia J, Lee T, Yu A, Goldman LE, Ratanawongsa N

High perceived social support and hospital readmissions in an older multi-ethnic, limited English proficiency, safety-net population.

BMC health services research

Chan B, Goldman LE, Sarkar U, Guzman D, Critchfield J, Saha S, Kushel M

Association of Rapid Molecular Testing With Duration of Respiratory Isolation for Patients With Possible Tuberculosis in a US Hospital.

JAMA internal medicine

Chaisson LH, Duong D, Cattamanchi A, Roemer M, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Sur M, Pham P, Lin MA, Goldman LE, Quan J, Perez S, Healy M, Higashi J, Winston L, Haller B, Luetkemeyer AF, Davis JL

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

Clarity C, Sarkar U, Lee J, Handley MA, Goldman LE

Displaying radiation exposure and cost information at order entry for outpatient diagnostic imaging: a strategy to inform clinician ordering.

BMJ quality & safety

Kruger JF, Chen AH, Rybkin A, Leeds K, Guzman D, Vittinghoff E, Goldman LE

From the closest observers of patient care: a thematic analysis of online narrative reviews of hospitals.

BMJ quality & safety

Bardach NS, Lyndon A, Asteria-Peñaloza R, Goldman LE, Lin GA, Dudley RA

Hospitalization-Associated Disability in Adults Admitted to a Safety-Net Hospital.

Journal of general internal medicine

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

Chan B, Goldman LE, Sarkar U, Schneidermann M, Kessell E, Guzman D, Critchfield J, Kushel M

Facility Mammography Volume in Relation to Breast Cancer Screening Outcomes.

Journal of medical screening

Onega T, Goldman LE, Walker RL, Miglioretti DL, Buist DS, Taplin S, Geller BM, Hill DA, Smith-Bindman R

Availability of Advanced Breast Imaging at Screening Facilities Serving Vulnerable Populations.

Journal of medical screening

Lee CI, Bogart A, Germino JC, Goldman LE, Hubbard RA, Haas JS, Hill DA, Tosteson AN, Alford-Teaster JA, DeMartini WB, Lehman CD, Onega TL

Functional disability in late-middle-aged and older adults admitted to a safety-net hospital.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

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

Goldman LE, Sarkar U, Kessell E, Guzman D, Schneidermann M, Pierluissi E, Walter B, Vittinghoff E, Critchfield J, Kushel M

"Missing pieces"--functional, social, and environmental barriers to recovery for vulnerable older adults transitioning from hospital to home.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Greysen SR, Hoi-Cheung D, Garcia V, Kessell E, Sarkar U, Goldman L, Schneidermann M, Critchfield J, Pierluissi E, Kushel M

Clinician perspectives on considering radiation exposure to patients when ordering imaging tests: a qualitative study.

BMJ quality & safety

Kruger JF, Chen AH, Rybkin A, Leeds K, Frosch DL, Goldman LE

Clinicians' views on displaying cost information to increase clinician cost-consciousness.

The American journal of managed care

Kruger JF, Chen AH, Rybkin A, Leeds K, Frosch DL, Goldman E

Incidence, predictors, and outcomes associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation after major noncardiac surgery.

American heart journal

Bhave PD, Goldman LE, Vittinghoff E, Maselli J, Auerbach A

Accuracy of do not resuscitate (DNR) in administrative data.

Medical care research and review : MCRR

Goldman LE, Chu PW, Osmond D, Bindman A

Federally qualified health centers and private practice performance on ambulatory care measures.

American journal of preventive medicine

Goldman LE, Chu PW, Tran H, Romano MJ, Stafford RS

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

Aaronson DS, Bardach NS, Lin GA, Chattopadhyay A, Goldman LE, Dudley RA

Statin use and postoperative atrial fibrillation after major noncardiac surgery.

Heart rhythm

Bhave PD, Goldman LE, Vittinghoff E, Maselli JH, Auerbach A

The accuracy of present-on-admission reporting in administrative data.

Health services research

Goldman LE, Chu PW, Osmond D, Bindman A

Accuracy of diagnostic mammography at facilities serving vulnerable women.

Medical care

Goldman LE, Walker R, Miglioretti DL, Smith-Bindman R, Kerlikowske K

An assessment of the quality of mammography care at facilities treating medically vulnerable populations.

Medical care

Goldman LE, Haneuse SJ, Miglioretti DL, Kerlikowske K, Buist DS, Yankaskas B, Smith-Bindman R

Quality of care in hospitals with a high percent of Medicaid patients.

Medical care

Goldman LE, Vittinghoff E, Dudley RA

Current and future directions in Medi-Cal chronic disease care management: a view from the top.

The American journal of managed care

Goldman LE, Handley M, Rundall TG, Schillinger D

Public reporting and pay-for-performance: safety-net hospital executives' concerns and policy suggestions.

Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing

Goldman LE, Henderson S, Dohan DP, Talavera JA, Dudley RA

Preterm infants with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia: presentation, response to therapy, and outcome.

Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing

Goldman LE, Boramanand NK, Acevedo V, Gallagher P, Nehgme R