With more than 40 percent of healthcare leaders ranking patient flow in the emergency department as their main challenge, they ought to consider adding a hospital medicine emergency department (HMED) ...

A hospital medicine emergency department team can improve patient flow, decrease ED diversion and treat patients boarded in the ED more quickly than can EDs without an HMED team, according to a study ...

A study published last October indicated that hospitalist groups with a higher ratio of physician assistants to physicians achieved the same outcomes at lower cost in a community hospital setting.

Q: What is a hospitalist? A: If you or a family member wind up spending time in a hospital as an inpatient these days, it’s likely you will come in contact with a hospitalist — a board-certified ...

Being a patient in the hospital can sometimes feel unsettling; in addition to coping with an illness or injury, patients face the additional task of adjusting to an unfamiliar environment and the new ...

Where would hospitals be without hospitalists? Today, hospitalists are so deeply integrated into many organizations that it might be hard to remember this role has only existed for a few decades.

Feb. 7, 2003 (New Orleans) — Patients managed by hospitalists after elective total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) have fewer minor postoperative complications and have fewer ...

Cox Medical Center Branson is welcoming Amit Shah, MD, MPH, to its inpatient team. Dr. Shah grew up in India and attended medical school at Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara, India. Shah came ...

WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) - UnityPoint Health – Allen Hospital is expanding its use of telemedicine, which allows physicians in different parts of the country to video conference a patient for care.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Thanks to a strong network of pediatric hospitalists ...