OSUWMC implemented strategies to optimize patient flow and increase transfers to its smaller OSU East Hospital, addressing ...

Members of the Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee discuss principles for fairly and meaningfully attributing ...

Recent advances in pain management include new medications, ketamine use, and growing emphasis on nonpharmacological methods, with a focus on individualized, holistic care.

Most adolescents do not receive timely primary care follow-up after ED mental health visits, with disparities driven by ...

Leaders provide a clear vision, empower others, and direct and motivate their teams to achieve common goals. And although more women work in the medical field than ever before, men dominate... Why ...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains one of the most common reasons adults are admitted to the hospital in the U.S., accounting for more than 1.4 million emergency department visits, 740,000 ...

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 ...

Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...

First, a disclaimer: I am not an attorney, and this is not intended to be legal advice. Any specific questions or concerns you may have should be directed to your legal counsel. The recommendations in ...

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 ...

Job stress, moral injury, burnout, and the great resignation—these are very real concerns for the field of hospital medicine, exacerbated by but not limited to the unprecedented challenges of the ...

A 77-year-old woman with malnutrition, who is undergoing chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer, is being treated with intravenous ceftriaxone and vancomycin through a peripherally inserted central ...