The Summer 2025 round of the National Hospital Medicine Writing Challenge will begin Monday, July 7, and registration will ...

As a result of multiple disruptors in recent years, Dr. Feeney has observed that residents are seeking greater variety in the ...

Urinalysis is the oldest laboratory test ever performed. It is a fast, easy, low-cost test for a variety of clinical ...

As hospital medicine becomes an established career path for trainees, new opportunities are emerging in leadership, medical ...

Among their many responsibilities, hospitalists typically rank patient care as their number one priority and the education of medical students, residents, and fellows as a critical number two. As ...

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 ...

Clinical question: Does diltiazem increase the risk of major bleeding in patients on apixaban or rivaroxaban? Background: Diltiazem is a potent CYP3A4 inhibitor and a mild P-glycoprotein inhibitor.

It’s 8 a.m. and the hospital is starting the day in a tough position. There are 15 patients boarding in the emergency department (ED), two patients who can be downgraded from the intensive care unit, ...

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 ...

Charumathi Raghu Subramanian, MD, a hospitalist and second-year clinical informatics fellow at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco, remembers a patient in ...

A 45-year-old hospitalist, a familiar face in the system for the past decade, tragically took his own life. His colleagues and staff admired him, and he always had a pleasant working personality.

How do U.S. hospitalists find their way into international hospital medicine and global health care—and what have they learned on the journey? Several hospitalist leaders in global health care ...