Overdiagnosis in the inpatient setting poses significant challenges, including unnecessary treatments and harms to patients, ...

Hospital medicine is experiencing rapid growth and evolving challenges, prompting reflection on clinician roles, patient care ...

Abdominal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a vital, rapid, and noninvasive diagnostic tool used by hospitalists to detect ...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) faces significant hospitalist staffing shortages, especially in rural areas, ...

HIV treatment has significantly evolved over the past 30 years, transforming HIV from a fatal disease to a manageable chronic ...

Navigating academic promotion for hospitalists involves understanding evolving criteria, institutional variations, and the ...

Introducing the Literature Lounge! As readers of The Hospitalist know, our In the Literature column is quite popular, with ...

If you’re an SHM member interested in sharing your expertise with readers of The Hospitalist, consider applying for the editorial board. Board members develop content, recommend sources, and may write ...

This article discusses the challenges and nuances involved in using CAUTI and CLABSI rates as performance measures for ...

It is truly an incredible time. Even as we witness the immense and rapid growth of our specialty and the dynamic evolution of medicine, we find ourselves asking critical questions about the ...

Abdominal ultrasound has become central in hospital medicine as a rapid, noninvasive, and radiation-free imaging modality for the evaluation of a wide range of acute and subacute abdominal... Heart ...

Tom Collins is a freelance writer in South Florida who has written about medical topics from nasty infections to ethical dilemmas, runaway tumors to tornado-chasing doctors. He travels the globe ...