I was assigned to Medicine Team 6 (MT6)—our residency program’s only inpatient family medicine service. It’s not just another ...

Drs. Poonacha and Chamoun outline why it's advantageous for hospitalists to be involved in hospital contract negotiations.

Continuity in Discontinuity There’s an irony to being a hospitalist in oncology. Our patients often have complex, ...

Physician advisors and hospitalists bring indispensable value to contract negotiations between hospital systems and payers. Traditionally, contracting has been managed primarily by finance and ...

Physician editor Dr. Weijen Chang talks about how the changes to Medicaid will impact hospitalists, patients, and healthcare.

Case Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...

A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper respiratory ...

His colleague Ron Li, MD, a clinical assistant professor of hospital medicine and medical informatics director for digital health at Stanford, described using AI to employ collaborative team workflows ...

In May 2020, the murder of George Floyd sparked a national call to action within the field of medicine. The goal was to promote diversity, truly include underrepresented populations in the workforce, ...

HealthPartners, Bloomington, Minn., established its Home-Based Acute Care program in 2019—just ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a partnership between community paramedics and on-call hospitalists, ...

It is important to keep in mind that the sensitivities and specificities can differ among different species of organisms. According to a 2011 meta-analysis published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1 ...

In honor of Veterans Day, The Hospitalist asked SHM members who work for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to share their insights on working for the largest integrated healthcare system in the ...