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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The number of opioid-related overdose deaths has sharply increased over the past decade, primarily due to the use of synthetic opioids. There were more than 70,000 such deaths in 2023. 1 Although ...

A hospital leader assigns the hospital medicine division chief to reduce the division’s length of stay (LOS). The division chief chooses LOS as a measure and focuses on individuals’ LOS by attributing ...