Early in his career, Eric Howell, MD, MHM—now the chief executive officer of the Society of Hospital Medicine—was a ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine and Wiley are happy to announce that The Hospitalist has received an APEX Award of Excellence this year for content published in 2024. The October 2024 issue was ...

The annual sepsis update distilled a year’s worth of high-impact evidence into practice-ready guidance for busy hospitalists. Here are highlights of the pivotal trials, clinical pearls, and future ...

The session emphasized different strategies to initiate buprenorphine, naltrexone, acamprosate, gabapentin, and phenobarbital therapy in patients with SUDs.

S HM Converge 2025 was another successful meeting of the minds and gave me the opportunity to learn and network. This year ...

In this article, we identify the top 10 most impactful articles for pediatric hospital medicine in 2025, as presented at the Pediatric Update at SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas. Four publications are ...

QUIZ A 65-year-old man is admitted for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). On hospital day two, respiratory symptoms are improving while being treated with ceftriaxone and azithromycin. As you are ...

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

Introduction Patient satisfaction is a highly desirable outcome of clinical care in the hospital and may even be an element of health status itself (1). A patient’s expression of satisfaction or ...

When I meet new people, I’m commonly asked, “So what do you do?” The first answer is easy: “I’m a doctor.” It’s the follow-up question that’s tricky: “What kind of doctor?” “I’m a hospitalist,” I say.

In January 2016, CMS amended the two-midnight rule to recognize, as it had done prior to October 2013, that some hospitalizations, based on physician judgment, would be appropriate for inpatient ...

There are different beta-D-glucan assays used, with different cutoff points for optimal sensitivity and specificity depending on the assay. The three most commonly used assays are Fungitell ...