In honor of Veterans Day, The Hospitalist asked SHM members who work for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to share their insights on working for the largest integrated healthcare system in the ...

Clinical question: Did the 2016 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain change opioid prescribing practices and vaso-occlusive crisis ...

Foreign medical graduates (FMGs), or international medical graduates (IMGs) represent an important section of the U.S. healthcare workforce. An IMG is a physician who received a basic medical degree ...

Using systematic review software, 2 we broadly screened 11,589 abstracts from 21 journals from August 1, 2023, to July 1, 2024, screened 289 abstracts, and reviewed 124 full-text articles to select ...

The 2024 Annual Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference’s theme was “How We PHM,” uniting more than 1,200 pediatric hospitalists who attended the conference in Minneapolis in August. According to Nancy ...

Clinical question: How often do diagnostic errors occur among hospitalized patients who die or are transferred to an intensive care unit (ICU), and how often do diagnostic errors contribute to patient ...

Clinical question: Is an early switch to oral antimicrobial therapy in low-risk Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection non-inferior to standard intravenous antimicrobial therapy? Background: S ...

Q & A with Kristin B. Gershfield, MD, FHM, Vituity Director of Quality and Performance, Sequoia Hospital, in Redwood City, Calif. Dr. Gershfield is passionate about quality improvement initiatives, ...

For hospitalists who are accustomed to caring for sick patients, encountering emergencies outside of the hospital is far beyond our comfort zones. To quell anxieties and prevent panic, Y. Katharine ...

This session began with a discussion of a patient presentation pediatric hospitalists are very familiar with—a toddler with vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain most consistent with a diagnosis of ...

Mohammed Zalabani, MD, FHM, had just stepped away from a directorship role and was looking for less leadership responsibility and more time with “my kids and my family and my house and my... Medical ...