September/October 2022
HOW SAFE is it to attend in-person medical conferences? A new study looking at covid infection rates after a meeting for surgeons earlier this year may come as a surprise.
Research published in JAMA Network compared covid infection rates among...
Patient Safety
A look at how U.S. hospitals address—or don’t—patient sleep
A STUDY in a recent issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine asked hospital medicine section chiefs how their institutions try to improve patient sleep....
Career
A look at hours, shifts and more for pediatric hospitalists
IN THIS YEAR’S Today’s Hospitalist Career & Compensation Survey, pediatric hospitalists reported earning a mean comp of $211,000 for 2021. Our survey results also...
Infectious Disease
Check back often as we continue to post timely updates on COVID-19.
Successful pandemic innovations: A line team takes charge of placing lines in the covid ICU.
September 16, 2022
Is the end of covid in sight?
This week, the WHO director general...
Clinical
How to help public health survive politics and misinformation
WHILE THE PANDEMIC brought public health efforts front and center, those efforts—mask mandates, isolation and travel guidelines, and the need for virtual schooling—became glaring...
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News Briefs
Is hospital medicine a brain drain from primary care?
Is hospital medicine a brain drain from primary care?
IT MAY NOT BE breaking news, but the embrace of hospital medicine by young internists suggests...
Patient Flow
Transfer delays: hospital medicine’s new bottlenecks, chronic problems
IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, hospitalist Allison Walton, MD, is trying to manage an ongoing crisis that started with the pandemic and still persists: long delays...
Satisfaction/Burnout
How the great resignation may affect hospitalists
STEPHEN BEHNKE, MD, MBA, says his big career move last summer—leaving his CEO job in a local Ohio hospitalist group to head up the...
Coding
Hospitalist workforce grew 50% between 2012 and 2019
NEW DATA show that the hospitalist workforce grew about 50% from 2012 to 2019, making the specialty one of the five biggest in American...
Career Center
How safe are in-person medical conferences?
HOW SAFE is it to attend in-person medical conferences? A new study looking at covid infection rates after a meeting for surgeons earlier this...