Nicholas Bosch MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
72 E. Concord Street | (617) 358-2800nabosch@bu.edu
nicholas.bosch@bmc.org
Sections
Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Centers
Pulmonary Center
Biography
Dr. Bosch is a health services researcher, epidemiologist, and critical care physician specializing in leveraging health services, quasi-experimental and causal-inference methods to inform and optimize the care of patients with critical illness. His research interests include learning health systems, sepsis, cardiovascular and endocrine disease during critical illness, substance use disorders in the ICU, and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Education
Medicine, MD, New York Medical College
MS, Boston University School of Public Health
Biological Sciences, BS, University of California, Davis
Publications
Steel TL, Shaw PA, Bradley KA, Johnson NJ, Hallgren KA, Matson TE, Bobb JF, Bosch NA, Afshar M, Burnham EL, Hough CL, Tolles J. Opening the DOOR to More Informative Hospital Trials by Ranking Treatment Experiences. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Nov; 22(11):1641-1644. PMID: 40705497.
Published on 10/29/2025Hill AD, Teja B, Burry L, Pinto R, Bosch NA, Walkey A, Stelfox HT, Chapman M, Scales DC, Wunsch H. Variation in Maximal Doses of Vasopressors Used for Treatment of Shock in Intensive Care Units in Alberta Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Anesth Analg. 2025 Oct 29. PMID: 41165255.
Published on 10/27/2025Shen BH, Shankar DA, Bosch NA, Walkey AJ, Piazza G, Klings ES, Law AC. Contemporary reperfusion therapies in patients with intermediate- and high-risk pulmonary embolism. Thromb Res. 2025 Oct 27; 256:109523. PMID: 41175547.
Published on 9/23/2025Austad K, Fantasia KL, Mohanty A, Jones KC, Bosch NA, Drainoni ML. Failing to Succeed: Advancing Mechanistic Understanding of Implementation Strategies Through Retrospective and Prospective Use of Causal Pathway Diagrams. Res Sq. 2025 Sep 23. PMID: 41041569.
Published on 9/17/2025Li B, Gershengorn HB, Vail EA, Wunsch H, Walkey AJ, Law AC, Ko D, Ayalon N, Kearney CM, Bosch NA. Inotrope Selection in Mixed Cardiogenic Shock with Sepsis: A Comparative Analysis between Milrinone and Dobutamine. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Sep 17. PMID: 40960311.
Published on 8/28/2025Erfle BA, Steel TL, Law AC, Kaufman DA, Hills-Dunlap K, Afshar M, Walkey AJ, Austad KE, Drainoni ML, Bosch NA. Pharmacological Interventions for Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Among Hospitalized Adults: A Multicenter Cohort Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Aug 28. PMID: 40877712.
Published on 7/14/2025Bosch NA, Law AC, Roubinian NH, Reza Jafarzadeh S, Walkey AJ. Variation in effectiveness of blood transfusion by hospital day: A multicenter retrospective study. J Hosp Med. 2025 Jul 14. PMID: 40659365.
Published on 6/11/2025Connelly D, Delahanty J, Patel S, Ackerbauer KA, Bosch NA, Klings ES, Lui JK. Inhaled epoprostenol for management of acute respiratory failure and pulmonary vascular disease. Pulm Pharmacol Ther. 2025 Sep; 90:102374. PMID: 40513981.
Published on 6/6/2025Ganti RS, Lee G, Bosch NA. Temporal Trends in Acetazolamide Use in Decompensated Heart Failure After Publication of the ADVOR Trial. Can J Cardiol. 2025 Aug; 41(8):1649-1651. PMID: 40482853.
Published on 5/20/2025Bosch NA, Wilson KC, Law AC. Are Procalcitonin Measures a Reliable Predictor of Stopping Antibiotics Among Patients With Sepsis? JAMA. 2025 May 20; 333(19):1728. PMID: 40227721.
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