Policies and procedures to develop a practical and physician-friendly hospitalists program - designed to improve and streamline patient care from the ER through discharge and transitional care period.

The authors developed and implemented a secure chat-based pairing model to increase procedural certification and timely ...

This article appears in the April 2013 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. Years ago, doctors would make rounds to supervise care for dozens of hospitalized patients. Now physicians often want to ...

Hospitalists are internal medicine doctors, pediatricians and obstetricians who manage the care of patients admitted into a hospital. Primary care physicians usually only see patients outside the ...

Hospitals are turning toward hospitalists to help them address physician shortages and ever-growing patient volumes in the inpatient setting. In fact, in 2012, hospitalists were found to be the second ...

What's Different About Hospitalists? Hospitalists' patients tend to be sicker than those of primary care physicians, given that they are already hospital inpatients. Hospitalists also lack the ...