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

Introducing the Literature Lounge! As readers of The Hospitalist know, our In the Literature column is quite popular, with ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total ...