Overdiagnosis in the inpatient setting poses significant challenges, including unnecessary treatments and harms to patients, ...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) faces significant hospitalist staffing shortages, especially in rural areas, ...

Abdominal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a vital, rapid, and noninvasive diagnostic tool used by hospitalists to detect ...

HIV treatment has significantly evolved over the past 30 years, transforming HIV from a fatal disease to a manageable chronic ...

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Navigating academic promotion for hospitalists involves understanding evolving criteria, institutional variations, and the ...

This article discusses the challenges and nuances involved in using CAUTI and CLABSI rates as performance measures for ...

Furosemide, a highly protein-bound organic acid, promotes free water clearance and natriuresis by entering the proximal tubules of the kidneys and blocking the sodium-potassium-chloride... Since ...

Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...

Hospitalist nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) providers have been a growing and evolving part of the inpatient medical workforce, seemingly since the inception of hospital medicine.

First, a disclaimer: I am not an attorney, and this is not intended to be legal advice. Any specific questions or concerns you may have should be directed to your legal counsel. The recommendations in ...