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How Hospitalists Can Team with Nursing to Improve Patient Care
October 3, 2011
Important coordinators of care, nurses can help hospitalists build relationships
News
How Hospitalists Can Team with Nursing to Improve Patient Care
September 23, 2011
Respect and trust go a long way with nurses, and improve patient care, satisfaction
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Audio interview with a pediatric hospitalist who is starting a palliative care team
August 2, 2010
Listen to an audio interview with Ami Doshi, MD, who is spearheading an effort to establish a pediatric palliative care team at the University of California at San Diego.
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Celebrating National Hospitalist Day: Four Paths, One Purpose
March 2, 2026
National Hospitalist Day celebrates hospitalists’ contributions to health care on the first Thursday of March. Founded by SHM in 2018, the day will be commemorated on March 5 this year. In honor...
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Rounding and Admitting Teams—Separate or Together?
- Chris Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM;
- Elizabeth Herrle, MD, FACP, SFHM
March 2, 2026
Clean, Clear, and Consistent For years, I was strongly against splitting our hospital medicine team structure into admitting and rounding teams. In looking at the competing values associated with...
Navigating PTO for Hospitalists
- Sarah Shihadeh, MD;
- TaRessa Wills, MD;
- Teresa Caponiti;
- Venkat P. Gundareddy, MBBS, MPH, FACP, SFHM
February 25, 2026
SHM has heard anecdotes from hospitalists that, post-COVID-19 pandemic, the culture around paid time off (PTO) has been shifting—both in prevalence and in use. Some groups are exploring PTO...
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How are AI’s Seismic Transformations Impacting Front-line Hospitalists?
February 2, 2026
Dr. Skandhan Amith Skandhan, MD, FACP, SFHM, a hospitalist and associate professor at UT Health in San Antonio, is so fascinated by the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform...
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Hospitalist-Led AI Research
- Adam Rodman, MD, MPH;
- Andrew S. Parsons, MD, MPH;
- R. Logan Jones, MD
February 2, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering hospital medicine at a moment when the field needs it most and when the risks of getting it wrong are high. For many hospitalists, interest in AI has grown...
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De-Mystifying Performance Measures for Hospitalists: Mortality
- Anunta Virapongse, MD;
- Kristin Gershfield, MD, FHM;
- Matthew Cerasale, MD, MPH, SFHM;
- Preetham Talari, MD
February 2, 2026
Mortality is the ultimate outcome metric for patient care. In the hospital, measuring mortality appears simple and straightforward, but upon considering the layers of attribution and risk...
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Social Prescriptions for Hospitalists in Tough Times
January 5, 2026
We knew hospital medicine was challenging when we signed up for the job: the most vulnerable members of our communities facing acute health crises; competing economic interests; continuous time...