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Bachrach RL, Frost MC, Fletcher OV, Chen JA, Chinman M, Ellis R, Williams EC. Receipt of Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder in the Veterans Health Administration: Comparison of Rates at the Intersections of Racialized and Ethnic Identity With Both Sex and Transgender Status. Journal of addiction medicine. 2024 Jun 6.
Chen JI, Roth B, Dobscha SK, Lowery JC. Implementation strategies in suicide prevention: a scoping review. Implementation science : IS. 2024 Feb 26; 19(1):20.
Lundberg DJ, Chen JA. Structural ableism in public health and healthcare: a definition and conceptual framework. Lancet Regional Health. Americas. 2024 Feb 1; 30:100650.
Denneson LM, Hannon SA, McDonald KL, Chen JI, O'Neil ME. Inactivation of high-risk flags for suicide in the Veterans Health Administration: Association of documentation variation with suicide attempts. Psychological Services. 2023 Nov 2.
Piette JD, Thomas L, Newman S, Marinec N, Krauss J, Chen J, Wu Z, Bohnert ASB. An Automatically Adaptive Digital Health Intervention to Decrease Opioid-Related Risk While Conserving Counselor Time: Quantitative Analysis of Treatment Decisions Based on Artificial Intelligence and Patient-Reported Risk Measures. Journal of medical Internet research. 2023 Jul 11; 25:e44165.
Yang JP, Do QA, Nhan ER, Chen JA. A mixed-methods study of race-based stress and trauma affecting Asian Americans during COVID. Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. 2023 Jul 11; 2023.
Piette JD, Hampstead BM, Marinec N, Chen J, Roberts JS. A Pilot Randomized Trial of a Purposeful and Stimulating Volunteer Opportunity: Program Satisfaction and Potential Impacts on Perceived Cognitive Change in a Neurologically Mixed Sample of Older Adults. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders. 2023 Jul 1; 37(3):237-242.
Su CT, Chen JC, Sussman JB. Virtual care for multiple myeloma in the COVID-19 era: interrupted time series analysis of veterans health administration data. [Letter to the Editor]. Leukemia & Lymphoma. 2023 May 1; 64(5):1035-1039.
Ho VT, Sgroi MD, Chandra V, Asch SM, Chen JH, Lee JT. Utilizing remote access for electronic medical records reduces overall electronic medical record time for vascular surgery residents. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2023 Jun 1; 77(6):1797-1802.
Denneson LM, Cameron DC, Hooker ER, Laliberte AZ, Chen JI. Self-Directed Violence Surveillance in the Veterans Health Administration: A National Examination of Factors Associated with Undetermined Versus Suicide Attempt Classification. Community mental health journal. 2023 Jul 1; 59(5):954-961.
Silvestrini M, Chen JA. "It's a sign of weakness": Masculinity and help-seeking behaviors among male veterans accessing posttraumatic stress disorder care. Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy. 2023 May 1; 15(4):665-671.
Chen JA, Anderson ML, Cherkin DC, Balderson BH, Cook AJ, Sherman KJ, Turner JA. Moderators and Nonspecific Predictors of Treatment Benefits in a Randomized Trial of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction vs Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy vs Usual Care for Chronic Low Back Pain. The journal of pain. 2023 Feb 1; 24(2):282-303.
Choi J, Chen JI. Examining the relationship between screen time and achievement motivation in an adolescent population. Journal of Emerging Investigators. 2022 Jun 13; 5:1-7.
Chih WL, Lussier EC, Chen JA, Yeh SJ, Lin SM, Chang TY, Chen MR. Physiological QT Interval Changes in Early Infancy Using Post-Menstrual and Post-Natal Age Calculation for Electrocardiogram Long QT Interval Screening in Taiwan. Acta Cardiologica Sinica. 2022 Jan 1; 38(1):73-83.
Chen JA, Ma H, Liu Z, Tian J, Lu S, Fang W, Ze S, Lu W, Xie Q, Huang J, Wang Y. Discovery of Orally Available Retinoic Acid Receptor-Related Orphan Receptor ?-t/Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase Dual Inhibitors for the Treatment of Refractory Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal of medicinal chemistry. 2022 Jan 13; 65(1):592-615.
Chen JA, Li S, Wang BX, Wu N, Li F, Li J. The effect of visually evoked innate fear on reward-associated conditional response and reversal learning in mice. Physiology & Behavior. 2022 Feb 1; 244:113648.
Silvestrini M, Indresano J, Zeliadt SB, Chen JA. "There's a huge benefit just to know that someone cares:" a qualitative examination of rural veterans' experiences with TelePain. BMC health services research. 2021 Oct 16; 21(1):1111.
Low YY, Hsu YL, Chen JA, Wei HM, Lai HC, Chiu YT, Kuo CC, Lin HC, Hwang KP. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) osteomyelitis among children: Experience in a single tertiary center in central Taiwan. Journal of microbiology, immunology, and infection = Wei mian yu gan ran za zhi. 2022 Oct 1; 55(5):965-972.
Chiu YT, Tien N, Lin HC, Wei HM, Lai HC, Chen JA, Low YY, Lin HH, Hsu YL, Hwang KP. Detection of respiratory pathogens by application of multiplex PCR panel during early period of COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary hospital in Central Taiwan. Journal of microbiology, immunology, and infection = Wei mian yu gan ran za zhi. 2022 Dec 1; 55(6 Pt 2):1144-1150.
Laliberte AZ, Roth B, Edwards B, Chen JI. Suicide Screening and Risk Assessment in the Emergency Department: Case Review of a Suicide Attempt Survivor. Journal of emergency nursing. 2021 Nov 1; 47(6):846-851.
Oh EJ, Parikh RB, Chivers C, Chen J. Two-Stage Approaches to Accounting for Patient Heterogeneity in Machine Learning Risk Prediction Models in Oncology. JCO clinical cancer informatics. 2021 Sep 1; 5:1015-1023.
Wang ST, Chen JA, Hsu C, Su NW. Microbial Phosphorylation Product of Hesperetin by BCRC 80517 Improves Oral Bioavailability in Rats. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 2021 Sep 8; 69(35):10184-10193.
Hwang YH, Chung CH, Chen YT, Chen JA. Characterization of Ti-containing nanoparticles in the aquatic environment of the Tamsuei River Basin in northern Taiwan. The Science of the total environment. 2021 Nov 25; 797:149163.
Hahm HC, Ha Y, Scott JC, Wongchai V, Chen JA, Liu CH. Perceived COVID-19-related anti-Asian discrimination predicts post traumatic stress disorder symptoms among Asian and Asian American young adults. Psychiatry Research. 2021 Sep 1; 303:114084.
Chen JA, Crawford C, Owusu M, Jahan AB, Faller V, Palmer C, Trinh NH. Sociocultural Psychiatry: Developing and Implementing a Residency Curriculum. Academic Psychiatry : The Journal of The American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and The Association For Academic Psychiatry. 2022 Jun 1; 46(3):364-368.
Yen YP, Chen JA. The mA epitranscriptome on neural development and degeneration. Journal of biomedical science. 2021 May 27; 28(1):40.
Piette JD, Striplin D, Aikens JE, Lee A, Marinec N, Mansabdar M, Chen J, Gregory LA, Kim CS. Impacts of Post-Hospitalization Accessible Health Technology and Caregiver Support on 90-Day Acute Care Use and Self-Care Assistance: A Randomized Clinical Trial. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality. 2021 May 1; 36(3):145-155.
Trinh NH, Jahan AB, Chen JA. Moving from Cultural Competence to Cultural Humility in Psychiatric Education. The Psychiatric clinics of North America. 2021 Jun 1; 44(2):149-157.
Li H, Chen JA, Ding QZ, Lu GY, Wu N, Su RB, Li F, Li J. Behavioral sensitization induced by methamphetamine causes differential alterations in gene expression and histone acetylation of the prefrontal cortex in rats. BMC neuroscience. 2021 Apr 6; 22(1):24.
Chang SH, Su YC, Chang M, Chen JA. MicroRNAs mediate precise control of spinal interneuron populations to exert delicate sensory-to-motor outputs. eLife. 2021 Mar 31; 10.
Lim CT, Chen JA. A Novel Virtual Partnership to Promote Asian American and Asian International Student Mental Health. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 2021 Jun 1; 72(6):736-739.
Lin HC, Li M, Stevens C, Pinder-Amaker S, Chen JA, Liu CH. Self-Harm and Suicidality in US College Students: Associations with Emotional Exhaustion versus Multiple Psychiatric Symptoms. Journal of affective disorders. 2021 Feb 1; 280(Pt A):345-353.
Liu CH, Pinder-Amaker S, Hahm HC, Chen JA. Priorities for addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college student mental health. Journal of American College Health : J of Ach. 2022 Jul 1; 70(5):1356-1358.
Chen JA, Zhang E, Liu CH. Potential Impact of COVID-19-Related Racial Discrimination on the Health of Asian Americans. American journal of public health. 2020 Nov 1; 110(11):1624-1627.
Stevens C, Zhang E, Cherkerzian S, Chen JA, Liu CH. Problematic internet use/computer gaming among US college students: Prevalence and correlates with mental health symptoms. Depression and anxiety. 2020 Nov 1; 37(11):1127-1136.
Huang DW, Lo YM, Chang WC, Lin CY, Chen JA, Wu JS, Huang WC, Shen SC. Alleviative effect of L. on NAFLD and hepatic lipid accumulation via modulating hepatic de novo lipogenesis in high-fat diet plus streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Food science & nutrition. 2020 Oct 1; 8(10):5710-5716.
Rubenstein JH, Jiang L, Kurlander JE, Chen J, Metko V, Khodadost M, Nofz K, Raghunathan T. Incomplete Response of Gastroesophageal Reflux Symptoms Poorly Predicts Erosive Esophagitis or Barrett's Esophagus. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. 2021 Nov 1; 19(11):2284-2292.e2.
Peterson A, Bozzay M, Bender A, Monahan M, Chen J. Those left behind: A scoping review of the effects of suicide exposure on veterans, service members, and military families. Death Studies. 2020 Aug 7; 1-10.
Eldridge A, Chen J, Furnari M, Makowichuk K, Black WE. Adopting a Peer-to-Peer Approach to Trainee Suicide Prevention. Academic Psychiatry : The Journal of The American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and The Association For Academic Psychiatry. 2021 Jun 1; 45(3):306-307.
Chen JA, Glass JE, Bensley KMK, Goldberg SB, Lehavot K, Williams EC. Racial/ethnic and gender differences in receipt of brief intervention among patients with unhealthy alcohol use in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration. Journal of substance abuse treatment. 2020 Dec 1; 119:108078.
Goldberg SB, Fortney JC, Chen JA, Young BA, Lehavot K, Simpson TL. Military Service and Military Health Care Coverage are Associated with Reduced Racial Disparities in Time to Mental Health Treatment Initiation. Administration and policy in mental health. 2020 Jul 1; 47(4):555-568.
Chuop M, Michel Z, Shah R, Chen JI, Black W. From Screening to Interventions: Teaching Clinical Suicide Prevention Skills to Medical Students. Academic Psychiatry : The Journal of The American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and The Association For Academic Psychiatry. 2021 Jun 1; 45(3):292-296.
Billig JI, Chen JS, Lu YT, Chung KC, Sears ED. The Economic Burden of Out-of-Pocket Expenses for Plastic Surgery Procedures. Plastic and reconstructive surgery. 2020 Jun 1; 145(6):1541-1551.
Chen JA. Capsule Commentary on Sullivan et al., Primary Care Opioid Taper Plans Are Associated with Sustained Opioid Dose Reduction. Journal of general internal medicine. 2020 Mar 1; 35(3):980.
Franz D, Marsh HE, Chen JI, Teo AR. Using Facebook for Qualitative Research: A Brief Primer. Journal of medical Internet research. 2019 Aug 13; 21(8):e13544.
Chang JW, Saini SD, Mellinger JL, Chen JW, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Rubenstein JH. Management of eosinophilic esophagitis is often discordant with guidelines and not patient-centered: results of a survey of gastroenterologists. Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus. 2019 Jun 1; 32(6).
Chen JI, Mastarone GL, Denneson LM. It's Not Easy - Impacts of Suicide Prevention Research on Study Staff. Crisis. 2019 May 1; 40(3):151-156.
Chen JI, Osman A, Freedenthal SL, Gutierrez PM. An Examination of the Psychometric Properties of the Reasons for Living Inventory within a Male Veteran Clinical Sample. Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research. 2019 Mar 29; 24(sup1):204-230.
Chen J, Lalor J, Liu W, Druhl E, Granillo E, Vimalananda VG, Yu H. Detecting Hypoglycemia Incidents Reported in Patients' Secure Messages: Using Cost-Sensitive Learning and Oversampling to Reduce Data Imbalance. Journal of medical Internet research. 2019 Mar 11; 21(3):e11990.
Peterson AL, Chen JI, Karver MS, Labouliere CD. Frustration with feeling: Latent classes of non-suicidal self-injury and emotion regulation difficulties. Psychiatry Research. 2019 May 1; 275:61-70.
Peterson A, Chen J, Karver M. "It's Not Serious": A threat-based model to help-seeking for depression. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing. 2019 Apr 1; 26(3-4):108-113.
Lehavot K, Beckman KL, Chen JA, Simpson TL, Williams EC. Race/Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation Disparities in Mental Health, Sexism, and Social Support among Women Veterans. Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity. 2019 Jan 1; 6(3):347-358.
Chen JI, Smolenski DJ, Dobscha SK, Bush NE, Denneson LM. Correlates of mental health application use among patients with suicidal ideation. Journal of Technology in Human Services. 2018 Nov 16; https://doi.org/10.1080/15228835.2018.1502119.
Chen JA, Owens MD, Browne KC, Williams EC. Alcohol-related and mental health care for patients with unhealthy alcohol use and posttraumatic stress disorder in a National Veterans Affairs cohort. Journal of substance abuse treatment. 2018 Feb 1; 85:1-9.
Chen JH, Asch SM. Machine Learning and Prediction in Medicine - Beyond the Peak of Inflated Expectations. The New England journal of medicine. 2017 Jun 29; 376(26):2507-2509.
Chen JH, Alagappan M, Goldstein MK, Asch SM, Altman RB. Decaying relevance of clinical data towards future decisions in data-driven inpatient clinical order sets. International journal of medical informatics. 2017 Jun 1; 102:71-79.
Chen JH, Goldstein MK, Asch SM, Mackey L, Altman RB. Predicting inpatient clinical order patterns with probabilistic topic models vs conventional order sets. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2017 May 1; 24(3):472-480.
Chen JI, Hergert DC. New perspectives in mental health: addressing cognitive deficits in remitted depression. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing. 2017 May 1; 24(4):252-259.
Chen J, Yu H. Unsupervised ensemble ranking of terms in electronic health record notes based on their importance to patients. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2017 Apr 1; 68:121-131.
Chen JA, Olin CC, Stirman SW, Kaysen D. The Role of Context in the Implementation of Trauma-Focused Treatments: Effectiveness Research and Implementation in Higher and Lower Income Settings. Current opinion in psychology. 2017 Apr 1; 14:61-66.
Chen J, Zheng J, Yu H. Finding Important Terms for Patients in Their Electronic Health Records: A Learning-to-Rank Approach Using Expert Annotations. JMIR medical informatics. 2016 Nov 30; 4(4):e40.
Chen JI, Romero GD, Karver MS. The relationship of perceived campus culture to mental health help-seeking intentions. Journal of counseling psychology. 2016 Nov 1; 63(6):677-684.
Hom J, Richman I, Chen JH, Singh B, Crump C, Chi J. Fulfilling outpatient medicine responsibilities during internal medicine residency: a quantitative study of housestaff participation with between visit tasks. BMC medical education. 2016 May 10; 16:139.
Chen JH. A PIECE OF MY MIND. The Patient You Least Want to See. JAMA. 2016 Apr 26; 315(16):1701-2.
Chen JH, Podchiyska T, Altman RB. OrderRex: clinical order decision support and outcome predictions by data-mining electronic medical records. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2016 Mar 1; 23(2):339-48.
Ouyang D, Chen JH, Hom J, Chi J. Internal Medicine Resident Computer Usage: An Electronic Audit of an Inpatient Service. JAMA internal medicine. 2016 Feb 1; 176(2):252-4.
Chen JH, Goldstein MK, Asch SM, Altman RB. DYNAMICALLY EVOLVING CLINICAL PRACTICES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PREDICTING MEDICAL DECISIONS. Pacific Symposium On Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium On Biocomputing. 2016 Jan 1; 21:195-206.
Shieh L, Go M, Gessner D, Chen JH, Hopkins J, Maggio P. Improving and sustaining a reduction in iatrogenic pneumothorax through a multifaceted quality-improvement approach. Journal of hospital medicine. 2015 Sep 1; 10(9):599-607.
Piette JD, Striplin D, Marinec N, Chen J, Aikens JE. A randomized trial of mobile health support for heart failure patients and their informal caregivers: impacts on caregiver-reported outcomes. Medical care. 2015 Aug 1; 53(8):692-9.
Piette JD, Marinec N, Chen J, Aikens JE. A Randomized Trial of Mobile Health Support for Heart Failure Patients and Their Informal Caregivers: Impacts on Caregiver-Reported Outcomes. Paper presented at: VA HSR&D / QUERI National Meeting; 2015 Jul 11; Philadelphia, PA.
Chen JH, Altman RB. Data-Mining Electronic Medical Records for Clinical Order Recommendations: Wisdom of the Crowd or Tyranny of the Mob? AMIA Summits on Translational Science proceedings. 2015 Mar 25; 2015:435-9.
Garg T, Lee JY, Evans KH, Chen J, Shieh L. Development and evaluation of an electronic health record-based best-practice discharge checklist for hospital patients. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2015 Mar 1; 41(3):126-31.
Shakhatreh MH, Duan Z, Avila N, Naik AD, Kramer JR, Hinojosa-Lindsey M, Chen J, El-Serag HB. Risk of upper gastrointestinal cancers in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease after a negative screening endoscopy. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. 2015 Feb 1; 13(2):280-6.
Steinman BA, Allen SM, Chen J, Pynoos J. Functional limitations as potential mediators of the effects of self-reported vision status on fall risk of older adults. Journal of aging and health. 2015 Feb 1; 27(1):158-76.
Chen JH, Altman RB. Automated Physician Order Recommendations and Outcome Predictions by Data-Mining Electronic Medical Records. Presented at: American Medical Informatics Association Translational Bioinformatics / Clinical Research Informatics Annual Joint Summits on Translational Science; 2014 Nov 14; San Francisco, CA.
Chen JH, Altman RB. Automated Physician Order Recommendations and Outcome Predictions by Data-Mining Electronic Medical Records. [Abstract]. AMIA Summits on Translational Science proceedings. 2014 Apr 23; 2014:206-210.
Chen JH, Altman RB. Automated Physician Order Recommendations and Outcome Predictions by Data-Mining Electronic Medical Records. Presented at: American Medical Informatics Association Translational Bioinformatics / Clinical Research Informatics Annual Joint Summits on Translational Science; 2014 Apr 9; San Francisco, CA.
Mulligan EA, Wachen JS, Naik AD, Gosian J, Moye J. Cancer as a Criterion A Traumatic Stressor for Veterans: Prevalence and Correlates. Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy. 2014 Jan 1; 6(Suppl 1):S73-S81.
Iwashyna TJ, Hansen-Flaschen J. Editors' introduction to ATS seminars: demystifying data. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2013 Jun 1; 10(3):251-2.
Wachen JS, Shipherd JC, Suvak M, Vogt D, King LA, King DW. Posttraumatic stress symptomatology as a mediator of the relationship between warzone exposure and physical health symptoms in men and women. Journal of traumatic stress. 2013 Jun 1; 26(3):319-28.
Curtis JP, Rathore SS, Wang Y, Chen J, Nallamothu BK, Krumholz HM. Use and effectiveness of intra-aortic balloon pumps among patients undergoing high risk percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2012 Jan 1; 5(1):21-30.
Koya DL, Chen JG, Smith TG, Moran WP. Screening mammography use in Medicare beneficiaries reflects 4-year mortality risk. The American journal of medicine. 2011 Apr 1; 124(4):369.e1-8.