March/April 2023

HOW DID HOSPITALISTS do when it came to getting pandemic bonuses? Data from the 2022 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey show that just under one-quarter of hospitalists—21%—received one of these bonuses, and that the average amount was under $8,000. Here’s...

Patient Safety

Should you board patients in inpatient hallways?

March 2023
In 2008, an American College of Emergency Physicians task force released a report on high-impact solutions to ED boarding. Item No. 1 on the solutions...

Career

A look at career satisfaction levels among hospitalists

March 2023
LOOK AT THE TOP-LEVEL statistics for job satisfaction among hospitalists, and the numbers don't look so bad. A huge majority—82%, to be precise—reported in...

Infectious Disease

Check back often as we continue to post timely updates on COVID-19.  Learning from Covid: How one health system reduced the use of daily tests for covid inpatients March 17, 2023 A new push to identify the origins of covid Interest in the...

Clinical

“Diagnostic stewardship” prevents unneeded antibiotic prescribing

January 2023
"DIAGNOSTIC STEWARDSHIP" may be a term that many hospitalists aren't familiar with. But according to Valerie Vaughn, MD, MSc, director of hospital medicine research...

Commentary

Discharge Rounds Redesigned: Read the entire January/February 2023 issue of Today’s Hospitalist here.

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Is hospital medicine a brain drain from primary care?

July 2022
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

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Is your ED snarled with boarders?

March 2023
FOR YEARS, emergency physicians have complained about patients being boarded in the ED, waiting hours or days for a transfer or an inpatient bed....

Satisfaction/Burnout

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Unmasking shame in medicine

March 2023
EMILY SILVERMAN, MD, is having a moment, one that's been years in the making. In 2016, she founded The Nocturnists to host clinicians telling live...

Coding

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The new year brings a shakeup in inpatient E/M codes

January 2023
FOR MORE THAN 20 years, hospitalists have gotten very comfortable with a core set of inpatient and observation evaluation and management (E/M) codes. But...