2025年2月3日 · The Hospitalist is the monthly news magazine of the Society of Hospital Medicine, reporting on issues and trends in hospital medicine relevant to hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, medical residents, and health care administrators.

2023年11月14日 · Implementing and Evaluating a DBN Initiative in a Large Tertiary Care Urban Hospital November 14, 2023. Clinical question: What is the impact of implementing discharge before noon (DBN) initiatives on discharge time and other factors such as length of stay (LOS), 30-day readmission, and ED boarding...

2022年3月30日 · T he term hospitalist was coined in 1996 in a New England Journal of Medicine article written by Dr. Robert Wachter—often considered the father of the field. The need was clear: hospitals wanted a physician dedicated to the care of inpatients on a 24/7 basis. Hospitals and patients have benefited tremendously, and hospital medicine has become the fastest-growing medical specialty in U.S ...

2022年5月2日 · Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis and as Hospitalists, It’s Time to Step Up May 2, 2022. I did not think that becoming a pediatric hospitalist would require me to become an expert in firearm injury, but here I am.

2024年8月1日 · Dr. Williams quickly progressed with physical therapy from being bedbound to using a wheelchair, a walker, and then a cane. He returned to the teaching service at Barnes in September and was working seven-day blocks again on the floors by December.

The Hospitalist monthly news magazine is an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine, reporting on issues and trends in hospital medicine. It reaches more than 35,000 hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, medical residents, and health care administrators interested in the practice and business of hospital medicine.

2022年2月16日 · First came the bed shortages. Then came the staff shortages. The vaccine shortages soon followed. In the hospitals across New York City where David Alfandre, MD, MSPH is a health care ethicist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Ethics in Health Care and an associate professor of medicine and population health at the NYU School of Medicine, the last two years have ...

2006年2月2日 · When I meet new people, I’m commonly asked, “So what do you do?” The first answer is easy: “I’m a doctor.” It’s the follow-up question that’s tricky: “What kind of doctor?”

2015年10月6日 · 2 Sometimes the disease is not the most important focus—maintaining the patient’s function is. Kenneth Covinsky, MD, MPH, division of geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, says that, many times, geriatric patients are “admitted for pneumonia or heart failure, and, during their stay, the condition improves; however, the person who came in walking and able to perform ...

2005年3月1日 · The next Annual Meeting is near. This means that the year, serving as your President, has nearly come to an end. As a result, this will be my last column.