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
Luo J, Pavlov I, Tavernier E, Perez Y, Kharat A, McNicholas B, Roca O, Vines DL, Ibarra-Estrada M, Alhazzani W, Lewis K, Simpson SQ, Rampon G, Liu L, Sun Q, Qiu H, Yang Y, Lapadula G, Qian ET, Gatto CL, Rice TW, Parhar KKS, Weatherald J, Walkey AJ, Bosch NA, Nay MA, Boulain T, Fossat G, Harris TRE, Thwaites CL, Phong NT, Bonfanti P, Yarahmadi S, Hashemian SM, Jayakumar D, Taylor SP, Johnson SA, Guerin C, Laffey JG, Ehrmann S, Li J. Awake Prone Positioning in Adults With COVID-19: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 May 01; 185(5):572-581. PMID: 40063016.
Published on 4/25/2025Mohanty A, Austad K, Bosch NA, Long MT, Nolen-Doerr E, Walkey AJ, Drainoni ML, Rizo I, Fantasia KL. Assessing Clinician Engagement with a Passive Clinical Decision Support System for Liver Fibrosis Risk Stratification in a Weight Management Clinic. Endocr Pract. 2025 Apr 25. PMID: 40288606.
Published on 4/14/2025Bosch NA, Wilson KC, Law AC. Are Procalcitonin Measures a Reliable Predictor of Stopping Antibiotics Among Patients With Sepsis? JAMA. 2025 Apr 14. PMID: 40227721.
Published on 4/10/2025Bosch NA. Blood Transfusion During Critical Illness, Not Just a Reflex Response to Low Hemoglobin Concentration. Crit Care Med. 2025 Apr 10. PMID: 40208006.
Published on 4/1/2025Pang B, Kearney CM, Law AC, Bosch NA. Trends in the Treatment of Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Apr; 22(4):620-623. PMID: 39700483.
Published on 3/24/2025Dobie A, Shen B, Homer-Bouthiette C, Shankar D, Pang B, Law A, Bosch NA. Practice Pattern Variation in Management of Severe Acute Asthma Among Mechanically Ventilated Patients in Pediatric Versus Adult ICUs. Crit Care Explor. 2025 Apr 01; 7(4):e1233. PMID: 40126920.
Published on 3/18/2025Bosch NA. Toward Optimizing Short-Acting Beta-Blockers in Septic Shock. Crit Care Med. 2025 May 01; 53(5):e1160-e1162. PMID: 40099923.
Published on 2/6/2025Kothari OA, Stone J, Manivannan A, Segarra-Concepcion A, Ferri GM, Ganti R, Gurnani SD, Gurijala N, Toro C, Bosch NA, Claudel SE. Statin Use and Cardiovascular Risk in Young Adults in the United States. Am J Prev Med. 2025 May; 68(5):1028-1031. PMID: 39922395.
Published on 1/24/2025Carr JR, Locke B, Patel JJ, Peltan ID, Brown SM, Bosch NA, Law AC. Use of High-Dose Hydroxocobalamin for Septic Shock. Chest. 2025 Jan 24. PMID: 39864505.
Published on 1/8/2025Barnes SJ, Na Y, Drainoni ML, Linas BA, Bosch NA, Tamlyn AL. Barriers and facilitators to conducting human subjects research at a safety net institution from the perspective of researchers. PLoS One. 2025; 20(1):e0313530. PMID: 39775250.
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