Hospitalized patients with diabetes require specialized management to reduce readmission rates and complications. Newer ...

Dr. Tran's article reflects on the 2025 Pediatric Hospital Medicine conference, emphasizing that the “magic” in pediatric ...

PHM continues to advance with diverse research impacting clinical care, quality improvement, and health equity. The top 10 ...

VAMC has developed strong QI programs for hospitalists, emphasizing research, education, and collaboration to enhance veteran care. These initiatives include training chief residents in QI, supporting ...

Geographic cohorting involves assigning patients and their clinical teams to specific hospital units to improve communication, workflow, and collaborative care.

The PLQS Award is an innovative program developed to systematically recognize and support quality improvement and patient safety activities among hospitalists and clinicians. It addresses the ...

The United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses. 1 Opioid addiction has a tremendous negative effect on parents and children by ...

A 53-year-old man with a history of daily alcohol use presents with one week of jaundice. His blood pressure is 95/60 mmHg, pulse 105/minute, and temperature 38.0°C. Examination discloses icterus, ...

Hospitalist nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) providers have been a growing and evolving part of the inpatient medical workforce, seemingly since the inception of hospital medicine.

Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...

Irritability. Tremors. Sweating and a rapid heart rate. Extreme confusion. Fever. Convulsions. These are all symptoms of acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome. A patient may develop acute alcohol ...

Something didn’t seem quite right. The person in the hooded sweatshirt standing near the entrance looked suspicious to respiratory therapist Betty Collins as she entered the newborn nursery on the ...