Hospitalists should evaluate their patients for aspiration syndrome and swallowing difficulty, known as dysphagia, more carefully than they now do, sa...
Can a new medical school, with an unprecedented curriculum focused intensely on costs and value, employing teams that include nurses, pharmacists, and...
Hospitalists have a lot to learn about providing care for the growing number of their patients addicted to opioids, and should reframe opioid addictio...
Dr. Leonard Feldman, a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has presented a list of usually unnecessary hospitalist practices for 5 yea...
With approximately 100,000 mHealth (or mobile health) apps and 13,000 medical apps available to mobile device users, how should a hospitalist physicia...
If hospitalists want to do well when bundled payment models kick in, they must help to direct the choice of post-discharge care settings for their pat...
The time has come to do away with the 12-hours-a-day, “7-on, 7-off” schedules followed by nearly all hospitalist groups, according to Dr. Robert Wacht...
