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

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

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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 ...

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

Understanding the complexities of health information and traversing the often obtuse, poorly organized, broader healthcare system can be difficult for even the most knowledgeable and educated ...

Clinical question: In the context of increasing antibiotic resistance and changing microbiology of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP), does secondary SBP prophylaxis reduce the recurrence of SBP ...

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 ...