Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Berdahl is an emergency physician and health services researcher with appointments as Assistant Professor at Cedars-Sinai, Assistant Professor at UCLA, and Physician Policy Researcher at RAND. His research interests are broad, but he generally focuses on detecting and preventing diagnostic errors and improving other aspects of quality and safety in the acute care setting. Current funded work related to diagnostic error includes: (1) a SIDM DxQI grant to develop a systematic feedback loop between the Cedars-Sinai intensive care unit and the emergency department to alert ED clinicians about clinically significant diagnostic errors; and (2) a Moore Foundation grant to develop a patient experience measure characterizing the timeliness of cancer diagnosis. In the future, Dr. Berdahl hopes to obtain federal funding to study patient-reported diagnostic errors among patients who were treated and released from the emergency department.
