Hospitalists play a critical role in QI and patient safety in hospitals, focusing on incremental improvements and transparent ...

The Hospital Medicine Community Engagement Committee focuses on fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within hospital ...

SHM’s North Bay Chapter aims to rebuild connections among hospitalists in Northern California through social, educational, ...

SHM’s IMG SIG aims to support IMGs in hospital medicine by fostering community, addressing challenges, and promoting ...

Hospitalization provides a crucial opportunity to support tobacco cessation. A QI initiative introduced a streamlined ...

AI, especially generative AI, is transforming medical education by changing how trainees learn, synthesize information, and ...

Clinical question: Does a restrictive fluid strategy improve clinical outcomes in heart failure (HF) patients compared to liberal fluid intake? Background: Fluid restriction is often recommended for..

Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...

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 ...

Hospitalist nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) providers have been a growing and evolving part of the inpatient medical workforce, seemingly since the inception of hospital medicine.

Most hospitalists’ training likely included caring for patients in the ambulatory clinic, urgent care, and ED settings. One of the most important aspects of medical training is deciding which of the ...

A hospital protocol is a mandatory, specific set of decision-making processes or standards based on best practices. Protocols are important in promoting safe, efficient, consistent, and high-quality ...