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News
How hospitalists can focus on health equity
November 21, 2017
Experts say hospitals and hospitalists must focus on health disparities to address the multitude of chronic medical conditions they treat.
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News
Pediatric hospitalists take on the challenge of antibiotic stewardship
October 19, 2017
While antibiotic stewardship is an issue relevant to nearly all hospitalists, for pediatric patients the considerations can be unique.
Opinion
New hospitalist unit has stellar patient satisfaction scores
September 22, 2017
Here’s how a hospitalist group in Ohio achieved top quartile performance on the Physician Communication domain of the HCAHPS survey.
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Opinion
Student Hospitalist Scholars: The importance of shared mental models
September 15, 2017
It can be difficult to maintain quality patient care in a large health system with both increased census and increased handoffs.
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News
Hospitalist movers and shakers – Sept. 2017
September 8, 2017
Take note of some recent career transitions in the hospital medicine community.
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Opinion
Immigration reforms: Repercussions for hospitalists and the health care industry
- Mohan Ramkumar Pamerla, MD;
- Venkatrao Medarametla, MD
August 16, 2017
The U.S. health care system is starved for hospitalists and primary care physicians, and international medical graduates will continue to play a pivotal role.
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News
Future Hospitalist: Top 10 tips for carrying out a successful quality improvement project
- Alfred Burger, MD, FACP, SFHM;
- And Hyung J Cho, MD, FACP;
- Maria Anaizza Aurora Reyna, MD, FHM
August 10, 2017
Implementing a successful quality improvement project requires intelligent direction, strategic planning, and skillful execution.
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Opinion
Student Hospitalist Scholars: Preventing unplanned PICU transfers
July 25, 2017
SHM Student Hospitalist Scholar Farah Hussain wants to help design interventions to prevent pediatric clinical deterioration and unplanned transfers to the PICU.
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News
HM17 session summary: Hospitalists as leaders in patient flow and hospital throughput
July 12, 2017
An education session at HM17 focused on key topics in patient flow and throughput for hospitalist physicians.
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Article
SHM group membership strengthens teams, builds leaders at iNDIGO
May 30, 2017
James W. Levy, PA-C, SFHM, managing partner at iNDIGO Health Partners, discusses the benefits that SHM’s group membership has brought to the iNDIGO hospital medicine team.