Shih-Chuan Chou, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• SM Health Policy and Management Harvard School of Public Health 2019
• Emergency Medicine Yale New Haven Hospital 2017
• MPH Public Health Tufts School of Public Health 2013
• MD Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine 2013

Grants and Projects

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• Impact of Health Deductible Health Plans on the Evaluation, Treatment, and Outcomes for Acute Coronary Syndrome, NIH, 2023-2028

Publications (19)

Top publication keywords:
Emergency TreatmentHealth Benefit Plans, EmployeeCrowdingDiagnostic ImagingHealth Services AccessibilityEmergency Service, HospitalMedicaidUrinary CathetersInsurance CoverageEmergency Medical ServicesBed OccupancyAfter-Hours CareUrinary CatheterizationPractice Patterns, Nurses'Deductibles and Coinsurance

• Trends in Urinary Catheter Use by Indication in US Emergency Departments, 2002-2019.
  JAMA 2022 Dickerson Mayes K, Schuur JD, Chou SC
• Hospital Occupancy and its Effect on Emergency Department Evaluation.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2021 Chou SC, Chang YC, Chen PC, Schuur JD, Weiner SG
• Evaluation of sex disparities in opioid use among ED patients with sickle cell disease, 2006-2015.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2021 Wilson TT, Chou SC, Becker S, Schuur JD, Beaudoin F
• Impact of High-Deductible Health Plans on Emergency Department Patients With Nonspecific Chest Pain and Their Subsequent Care.
  Circulation 2021 Chou SC, Hong AS, Weiner SG, Wharam JF
• Prescription and Prescriber Specialty Characteristics of Initial Opioid Prescriptions Associated with Chronic Use.
  Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2020 Weiner SG, Chou SC, Chang CY, Garner C, El Ibrahimi S, Hallvik S, Hendricks M, Baker O

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• High-deductible health plans and low-value imaging in the emergency department.
  Health services research 2020 Chou SC, Hong AS, Weiner SG, Wharam JF
• Advanced imaging and trends in hospitalizations from the emergency department.
  PloS one 2020 Chou SC, Nagurney JM, Schuur JD, Weiner SG
• Where Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Get Acute Care: Is the Emergency Department the Medical Home?
  Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society 2020 Venkatesh AK, Gettel CJ, Mei H, Chou SC, Rothenberg C, Liu SL, D'Onofrio G, Lin Z, Krumholz HM
• Medicaid Expansion Reduced Emergency Department Visits by Low-income Adults Due to Barriers to Outpatient Care.
  Medical care 2020 Chou SC, Gondi S, Weiner SG, Schuur JD, Sommers BD
• Changes in Emergency Department Care Intensity from 2007-16: Analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2020 Chou SC, Baker O, Schuur JD
• Association Between Insurance Status and Access to Hospital Care in Emergency Department Disposition.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Venkatesh AK, Chou SC, Li SX, Choi J, Ross JS, D'Onofrio G, Krumholz HM, Dharmarajan K
• Primary Care Office Visits For Acute Care Dropped Sharply In 2002-15, While ED Visits Increased Modestly.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2019 Chou SC, Venkatesh AK, Trueger NS, Pitts SR
• Analysis of a Commercial Insurance Policy to Deny Coverage for Emergency Department Visits With Nonemergent Diagnoses.
  JAMA network open 2018 Chou SC, Gondi S, Baker O, Venkatesh AK, Schuur JD
• Trends in advanced imaging and hospitalization for emergency department syncope care before and after ACEP clinical policy.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2018 Chou SC, Nagurney JM, Weiner SG, Hong AS, Wharam JF
• Patient centered medical homes did not improve access to timely follow-up after ED visit.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2018 Chou SC, Rothenberg C, Agnoli A, Wiechers I, Lott J, Voorhees J, Bernstein SL, Venkatesh AK
• Insurance Status and Access to Urgent Primary Care Follow-up After an Emergency Department Visit in 2016.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2017 Chou SC, Deng Y, Smart J, Parwani V, Bernstein SL, Venkatesh AK
• ED utilization of medical clearance testing for psychiatric admission: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey analysis.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2017 Yun BJ, Chou SC, Nagurney JM, White BA, Wittmann CW, Raja AS
• Emergency Departments in Connecticut: A Report Utilizing the National Emergency Department Inventory Survey.
  Connecticut medicine 2016 Chou SC, Schiller E, Faridi MK, Espinola JA, Raja AS, Camargo CA, Venkatesh AK
• Racial/ethnic differences in the presentation and management of severe bronchiolitis.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2014 Santiago J, Mansbach JM, Chou SC, Delgado C, Piedra PA, Sullivan AF, Espinola JA, Camargo CA