National Hospitalist Day honors hospitalists. This year's feature focuses on hospitalists' diverse contributions to healthcare, showcasing varied career paths in hospital medicine.

As healthcare systems grow increasingly complex, hospitalists have become central to modern inpatient care. A hospitalist is ...

As healthcare systems grow more complex, hospitalists have become central to modern inpatient care. A hospitalist is a ...

A growing number of physicians are choosing to subspecialize in pediatric hospital medicine, and many of them are spending most of their time caring for newborns. A group of researchers set out to ...

Hospitalists are physicians specially trained in the care of hospitalized patients. In critical access hospitals (CAHs), the annual cost of a physician-based hospitalist program is approximately $1M.

New data suggests dedicated OB hospitalists can reduce complications and improve access, but for CMOs, the bigger question is ...

On mixed rounding and admitting teams, admissions loom over each day, encouraging rushed rounding, and producing increased ...

Background: Changes in the health care delivery and policy environment are creating increased need for attention to health care costs and efficiency. Hospitals need to develop and implement oversight ...

Highlights of a recent Ob Hospitalist Group report include 1,608 infant deaths avoided, 1,036 preterm births avoided, and a C-section rate that was significantly below the national average.

Hospital medicine has grown steadily and dramatically over the past few years, and currently there are about 34,000 hospitalists in the United States. A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine ...