“I try to let the doctors know that what is in what the Joint Commission looks at, and what the CMS conditions of ...

The SHM Greater Philadelphia Area chapter emphasizes stable leadership, community building, mentorship, and collaboration ...

Clinical reasoning traditionally begins with the patient and builds outward through history, examination, and synthesis.

ACGME-accredited adult hospital medicine fellowship programs by fostering national collaboration, sharing best practices, ...

Dr. Awan is a hospitalist and assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She is interested ...

The first time I watched “ER ”, I wasn’t thinking about admissions, throughput metrics, or RVUs. I was a teenager sitting too ...

Dr. Kacheria is a PGY-2 in the Abrazo Health internal medicine residency program in Glendale, Ariz.

Members of SHM's Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee delve into the complexities and consequences of attributing crucial metrics to individual hospitalists versus groups.

When the Algorithm Speaks First Decision often begins before the clinical encounter starts. I open the chart and immediately see a banner alert identifying a patient as high risk for sepsis or... The ...

Clinical Question: Can an oral probiotic lozenge containing Streptococcus salivarius K12 minimize radiation-induced mucositis? Background: Patients with head and neck cancer are often treated with ...

Before he was involved in department leadership, Shivi Sharma, MBBCh, associate director of the hospitalist service at Yale New Haven Health and assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Yale ...

A 72-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is admitted to a medical unit with pneumonia. Overnight, his oxygen requirement increases from 4 L/min via nasal cannula to... An 82 ...