Pediatric sepsis remains a significant cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Recent guidance emphasizes bundled care, ...

Hospitalists are taking increasingly central roles in interfacility triage, transfer management, and capacity coordination.

Rising inpatient volume and occupancy exposed admission-triage bottlenecks at a large multisite academic medical center. The ...

SHM’s Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter supports hospitalists through professional networking, education, mentorship, ...

Pediatric hospital medicine evolved from a staffing model focused on physician availability into a broad specialty shaped by ...

Hospitalists continue to grapple with the best multimodal way to control patient pain while maximizing the use of medications and other available choices. “Pain is uniquely personal and requires ...

After six months of critical care rotations during my internal medicine residency, I felt well prepared to perform most of the procedures that were core competencies. But after a few years in practice ...

As a quaternary academic referral center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) is heavily reliant on transfers from referring hospitals and experiences a high volume of such ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hospitalist is debuting a new section on the website called The Bookshelf. If you’re an SHM member who’s published a book, we want to showcase your accomplishment. Send us a cover image and a ...

Nights Like These grew out of my years working in acute care and hospital medicine and, in particular, watching how clinical judgment develops over time. The book uses realistic clinical situations to ...