News
Hospitalist groups explore use of medical scribes
November 13, 2018
Can medical scribes make life easier for hospitalists?
News
Hospitalist movers and shakers – Sept. 2018
September 17, 2018
Take note of some recent career transitions in the hospital medicine community.
News
Hospitalists target inpatient glycemic control
August 13, 2018
Hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients is an extraordinarily common and growing problem.
News
Diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis in the hospital
- Malachi Courtney, MD;
- Satyananta Velidi, MD;
- Syam Mallampalli, MD, MPH, FACP
June 13, 2018
Active pulmonary tuberculosis (APTB) remains an important but often missed diagnosis in hospitalized patients.
News
Hospital safety program curbs surgical site infections
May 25, 2018
An AHRQ-designed program significantly reduced SSIs and improved safety culture in Hawaiian hospitals.
News
How should asymptomatic hypertension be managed in the hospital?
- And Adam J. Gray, MD;
- Paula Bailey, MD, MHA;
- William C. Lippert, MD, MPH
May 1, 2018
The appropriate treatment of hypertension in the inpatient setting is suboptimal due to the lack of guidelines and inconsistent management.
News
Hospitalist movers and shakers – March 2018
March 26, 2018
Take note of some recent career transitions in the hospital medicine community.
News
Rural residents admitted for opioid overdoses increasingly are hospitalized in urban hospitals
- Joseph A. Simonetti, MD, MPH
January 24, 2018
Is there an association between rurality and trends and characteristics of hospitalizations for opioid overdose?
News
Managing mental health care at the hospital
December 7, 2017
As available resources for people with mental health issues become increasingly scarce, hospitals face a growing, complex challenge.
Opinion
Medical malpractice and the hospitalist: Reasons for optimism
- Adam C. Schaffer, MD, MPH;
- Allen Kachalia, MD, JD, SFHM
November 9, 2017
The most common types of malpractice allegations made against hospitalists were related to medical treatment, diagnosis, and medications.