A 66-year-old man with a history of hypertension and stage 4 chronic kidney disease was admitted to the hospital for acute pulmonary embolism and started on a heparin drip. It is day two of his ...

How We Did It is a new column that aims to highlight how individual hospitalist programs have successfully implemented innovations in medical programs, educational programs, wellness initiatives, or ...

Informed consent is critical to the daily practice of medicine. Conversations about the risks and benefits of treatment options are both a legal requirement and an ethical duty. However, another ...

POCUS is a new column on point-of-care ultrasound. This column aims to explore evolving clinical applications, educational advancements, and the clinical impacts of POCUS through the insights of ...

May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. In honor of this month, The Hospitalist interviewed several AAPI hospitalists to learn more about how their upbringing influenced them and ...

Clinical question: Are there alternatives to statins for primary prevention? Background: Statins that lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol are major therapeutics in reducing both primary ...

Clinical question: Is the interrupted use of a beta-blocker non-inferior to its continued use in patients with a history of myocardial infarction (MI)? Background: Patients with MI are often started ...

The Hospitalist aims to provide articles on key issues and trends in hospital medicine, continually assessing how to deliver engaging, relevant, and useful content. Other articles fall into these ...

Being the newest anything can be both a blessing and a curse. For SHM’s Research Special Interest Group, which just formed in October 2024, the positives of being so new are that the group is ...

Clinical question: Should renin-angiotensin system inhibitors (RASI) be continued or discontinued before major noncardiac surgery? Background: Continuation of RASI perioperatively can predispose to ...

POCUS is a new column on point-of-care ultrasound. This column aims to explore evolving clinical applications, educational advancements, and the clinical impacts of POCUS through the insights of ...

Clinical question: Is there a difference in the effectiveness of sickle cell vaso-occlusive episode treatment with lactated Ringer’s (LR) solution versus normal saline (NS)? Background: Initial ...