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 ...

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 ...

As a hospitalist myself, I have seen firsthand the need for a healthcare system that provides better care, spends dollars more wisely, and keeps people healthier. I practice on weekends taking care of ...

A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper respiratory ...

The practice of hospital medicine is rapidly changing. Higher-acuity patients are being admitted to hospitals already struggling with capacity, and hospitalists are being instructed to pay attention ...

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 ...

In partnership with our members and SHM’s Board of Directors, we are exploring ways SHM can support the hospital medicine community as we collectively monitor the key factors outlined above and how ...

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 ...

Historically, many mentorship relationships occurred outside of organized programs, where the relationship developed intentionally or organically out of personal connections. To maximize the benefit ...