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Demystifying Performance Measures for Hospitalists: Principles for Attribution
- Chris Bruti, MD, MPH, SFHM, and Kathryn Humes, MD, FACP, FHM
September 2, 2026
In last month’s issue of The Hospitalist, members of SHM’s Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee wrote about attribution challenges. Building on that article, the use of quality...
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The Balancing Act of Pain Management
September 2, 2026
Dr. Spaeth Hospitalists continue to grapple with the best multimodal way to control patient pain while maximizing the use of medications and other available choices. “Pain is uniquely...
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Should Hospitalists Routinely Perform Bedside Procedures?
- Kristin Gershfield, MD, FHM, and Christopher Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM
September 2, 2026
Why Hospitalists Should Not Routinely Perform Bedside Procedures After six months of critical care rotations during my internal medicine residency, I felt well prepared to perform most of the...
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Your Hurt Is Not My Hurt: The Subjectivity and History of Pain
September 2, 2026
“Only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory,” philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said about pain. For him, pain is central to human existence, and its function is to make us remember....
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Developing a POCUS-Focused Inpatient Wards Team with Mixed Faculty Expertise
- Arinea Salas, MD, Swathi Subramany, MD, FACP, David Goldstein, MD, SFHM, Cassie Shaw, MD, FACP, David Baron Herrera, MD, and Evelyn Inga, MD
September 2, 2026
Despite national endorsements from the Society of Hospital Medicine, the American College of Physicians, and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine recognizing point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)...
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Optimizing Patient Flow and Growing Referring-Hospital Transfers
- Benjamin P. Buettner, MD, FACP, Deepak Rai, MD, FACP, SFHM, and Tyler Tumberg, MBA, MHA
September 2, 2026
As a quaternary academic referral center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) is heavily reliant on transfers from referring hospitals and experiences a high volume of such...
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New CAP Guidance Highlights Antibiotic Stewardship, Lung Ultrasound, and Steroid Use
- Naveed Choudry, MD, FHM, FACP, Nazifa Sheikh, Saad Mohammad, MD, FACP, and Shams Quazi, MD, MS, FACP
September 2, 2026
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains one of the most common reasons adults are admitted to the hospital in the U.S., accounting for more than 1.4 million emergency department visits, 740,000...
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Women Hospitalists Shaping the Future of Leadership
September 2, 2026
Leaders provide a clear vision, empower others, and direct and motivate their teams to achieve common goals. And although more women work in the medical field than ever before, men dominate...
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Lost
August 18, 2026
Have you ever wondered what it's like to feel lost? I often think of this sitting idle in front of my computer, but busy still Exhausted by the machinations of systems of care in...
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Medicine—the Art of Caring OR Business Model Without Heart
August 3, 2026
The pendulum from strict medicine hierarchy to 9-5 style of work. Doctors—do you have power for independent thought in caring for patients? Yes, of course, after you answer patients,...