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

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

Hospital medicine is experiencing rapid growth and evolving challenges, prompting reflection on clinician roles, patient care ...

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

If you’re an SHM member interested in sharing your expertise with readers of The Hospitalist, consider applying for the ...

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

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

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

The United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses. 1 Opioid addiction has a tremendous negative effect on parents and children by ...

How hospitalists and other clinicians communicate with patients impacts a patient’s overall experience and satisfaction. But according to the authors of “Communication the Cleveland Way,” 1 a book ...

A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper respiratory ...

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 ...