A Q&A with Mehraneh Khalighi, MD, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care Systems, and the University of Washington, division of general internal medicine, Seattle Try different aspects of hospital ...

A Q&A with Jennifer Caputo-Seidler, MD, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla. Early in my career, I was advised of the importance of finding a professional home. Being the society for hospitalists, ...

The Hospitalist aims to provide articles on key issues and trends in hospital medicine, continually assessing how to deliver engaging, relevant, and useful content. Other articles fall into these ...

A 66-year-old man with a history of hypertension and stage 4 chronic kidney disease was admitted to the hospital for acute pulmonary embolism and started on a heparin drip. It is day two of his ...

May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. In honor of this month, The Hospitalist interviewed several AAPI hospitalists to learn more about how their upbringing influenced them and ...

How We Did It is a new column that aims to highlight how individual hospitalist programs have successfully implemented innovations in medical programs, educational programs, wellness initiatives, or ...

Healthcare supply chain disruptions have emerged as a major challenge nationwide, fundamentally reshaping clinical practice and patient-care delivery within hospitals. As clinicians, we increasingly ...

Clinical question: Can computerized provider order entry (CPOE) prompts reduce the use of empiric extended-spectrum antibiotics in patients with urinary tract infections (UTI)? Background: UTIs are a ...

Being the newest anything can be both a blessing and a curse. For SHM’s Research Special Interest Group, which just formed in October 2024, the positives of being so new are that the group is ...

Clinical question: Does a brief continuing education intervention improve the well-being of healthcare workers (HCWs)? Background: HCWs’ well-being has been severely impacted, particularly after the ...

How We Did It is a new column that aims to highlight how individual hospitalist programs have successfully implemented innovations in medical programs, educational programs, wellness initiatives, or ...

Clinical question: Is there a difference in the effectiveness of sickle cell vaso-occlusive episode treatment with lactated Ringer’s (LR) solution versus normal saline (NS)? Background: Initial ...