{"id":5332,"date":"2025-02-12T18:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T23:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/?page_id=5332"},"modified":"2025-02-12T18:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T23:13:05","slug":"research-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonarycenter\/research\/echo\/research-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Care – Echo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our group uses large clinical, public health, and administrative databases to characterize variations in practice patterns and determinants of outcomes in the care of critically ill patients. Our research seeks to improve processes and outcomes of critical care by using advanced epidemiologic, econometric, and biostatistics methods to draw inferences with direct clinical relevance. Our NIH-funded work covers: epidemiology and management of cardiovascular complications of sepsis, management of analgesia and sedation during mechanical ventilation, approaches to vasopressor and steroid use in patients with septic shock, institutional compliance with guideline-recommended respiratory failure management, and outcomes of long-term feeding and breathing tubes placed during critical illness, among many other topics.<\/p>\n

Co-Directors<\/h2>\n

\"Headshot<\/a> Anica Law, MD, MSc<\/a><\/h3>\n

Anica Law<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University. She is a critical care physician, health services researcher, and principal investigator on an NIH\/NHLBI-funded K23; she also receives support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the BU Department of Medicine Career Investment Award. Using large databases and leveraging natural experiments where feasible, she seeks to understand the determinants of outcomes after critical illness in order to better inform decision-making during critical illness and the optimal delivery of care after acute critical illness. Her work has been referenced in media outlets including NPR, US News and World Report, and the Associated Press and has achieved Altmetric Attention Scores in the 99th percentile. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, participates in the NIH Early Career Reviewer Program, and is Chair of the Critical Care Assembly\u2019s Planning Committee within the American Thoracic Society.<\/p>\n

Publications<\/h4>\n
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Published on 6\/1\/2022<\/span> Bosch NA, Law AC, Rucci JM, Peterson D, Walkey AJ. Predictive Validity of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score versus Claims-based Scores among Critically Ill Patients. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 Jun; 19(6):1072-1076. PMID: 35266866. PubMed<\/a><\/p>\n

Published on 5\/24\/2022<\/span> Law AC, Tian W, Song Y, Stevens JP, Walkey AJ. Decline in Prolonged Acute Mechanical Ventilation, 2011-2019. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022 May 24. PMID: 35608537. PubMed<\/a><\/p>\n

Published on 5\/24\/2022<\/span> Law AC, Bosch NA, Walkey AJ. Procedure Codes for Intubated Prone Positioning: A Turn for the Better. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 May 24. PMID: 35608404. PubMed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

View full list of 35 publications.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Headshot<\/a> Nicholas Bosch, MD, MSc<\/a><\/h3>\n

Nicholas Bosch<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University. His research focuses on leveraging practice patterns and natural experiments to inform our understanding of the effectiveness of intensive care unit therapies. His research interests include sepsis, cardiovascular and endocrine disease during critical illness, severe alcohol withdrawal, and acute respiratory failure. His research has been cited in high impact journals such as JAMA, AJRCCM, and ICM. Dr. Bosch is principal investigator of a NIH KL2 award and is additionally supported by grants from NIH\/NHLBI and the DOD.<\/p>\n

Publications<\/h4>\n
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Published on 6\/1\/2022<\/span> Bosch NA, Law AC, Rucci JM, Peterson D, Walkey AJ. Predictive Validity of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score versus Claims-based Scores among Critically Ill Patients. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 Jun; 19(6):1072-1076. PMID: 35266866. PubMed<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published on 5\/24\/2022<\/span> Law AC, Bosch NA, Walkey AJ. Procedure Codes for Intubated Prone Positioning: A Turn for the Better. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2022 May 24. PMID: 35608404. PubMed<\/a><\/p>\n

Published on 5\/18\/2022<\/span> Rampon G, Jia S, Agrawal R, Arnold N, Mart\u00edn-Quir?s A, Fischer EA, Malatack J, Jagan N, Sergew A, Case AH, Miller K, Tanios M, Doros G, Ross CS, Garcia MA, Gillmeyer KR, Griffiths NG, Jandali B, Modzelewski KL, Rucci JM, Simpson SQ, Walkey AJ, Bosch NA. Smartphone-guided Self-prone Positioning versus Usual Care in Non-Intubated Hospital Ward Patients with COVID-19: A Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial. Chest. 2022 May 18. PMID: 35597286. PubMed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

View full list of 34 publications.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fellows<\/h3>\n

Mariah Evarts
\n Jacqueline Dinh
\n Michelle Hall
\n Viviana Reyes Pinzon
\n Burton Shen
\n Sara Shusterman
\n Julia Newman
\n Collin Homer-Bouthiette
\n Lauren Kearney
\n Jingzhou (JZ) Zhang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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