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On mixed rounding and admitting teams, admissions loom over each day, encouraging rushed rounding, and producing increased ...

This article describes the development, implementation, and initial outcomes of a pediatric hospital-at-home program at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital aimed at expanding pediatric hospital ...

Hospitalists rely on clinical practice guidelines as key decision-making tools, but these guidelines often depend more on ...

CLINICAL QUESTION: Does octreotide long-acting release (LAR) reduce transfusion requirements in patients with angiodysplasia-related anemia? BACKGROUND: Angiodysplasias frequently cause refractory ...

Understanding the complexities of health information and traversing the often obtuse, poorly organized, broader healthcare system can be difficult for even the most knowledgeable and educated ...

CLINICAL QUESTION: This study compares the efficiency of an AI-assisted screening tool versus manual chart reviews for unstructured data in assessing patient eligibility based on specific criteria.

Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine ...

Clinical question: In the context of increasing antibiotic resistance and changing microbiology of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP), does secondary SBP prophylaxis reduce the recurrence of SBP ...

When, in their classic 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article, Robert Wachter, MD, and Lee Goldman, MD, announced the emergence of the hospitalist concept, they defined it in terms of doctors ...

Now in its 13th year, Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) continues to incentivize hospitals to do a better job of coordinating the care of patients they are discharging to ...

Dr. HM is a third-year internal medicine resident physician preparing to apply for a hospitalist position after completing residency. As an underrepresented physician in medicine, she seeks to join a ...