On mixed rounding and admitting teams, admissions loom over each day, encouraging rushed rounding, and producing increased ...

This article describes the development, implementation, and initial outcomes of a pediatric hospital-at-home program at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital aimed at expanding pediatric hospital ...

Hospitalists rely on clinical practice guidelines as key decision-making tools, but these guidelines often depend more on ...

SHM's Central Ohio chapter focuses on diverse topics and experiences to support hospital medicine professionals at various career stages. Led by Dr. Rashmi Ganith, the chapter emphasizes wellness, ...

Founded in 2024, the Environmental Health SIG is intended to be a community for all facets of environmental health in hospital medicine.

A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper respiratory ...

Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total ...

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 ...

As a harbinger of the future, precision medicine (or personalized medicine) first came to light in 1999 when specific genetic markers and therapeutics were identified. In 2015, it became a national ...

When patients with AUD are hospitalized, they have often already received a standard IV solution (100 mg of thiamine, 1 mg of folate, 1-2 g of magnesium, and a multivitamin dissolved in saline or ...

Now in its 13th year, Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) continues to incentivize hospitals to do a better job of coordinating the care of patients they are discharging to ...

High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), as the name suggests, is a training modality that involves short periods or intervals of intense work followed by intervals of rest/recovery (see sidebar for ...