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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What have been some of the most significant changes in hospital medicine since the specialty was established? What recent highs and lows have occurred in hospital medicine or healthcare as a whole?

With hospital medicine a newer specialty, mentorship has an extra special role, say several hospitalist leaders who have spent much of their careers serving as mentors for others. Mentoring helps ...

As a harbinger of the future, precision medicine (or personalized medicine) first came to light in 1999 when specific genetic markers and therapeutics were identified. In 2015, it became a national ...

A 64-year-old female is admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and started on IV antibiotics. You see her after she has been admitted and start some IV fluids for presumed sepsis. On day two, the ...

Many are familiar with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) two-midnight rule, which was created in 2013 and distinguished between observation-appropriate and inpatient-appropriate ...