If a hospital stay is in your future, don’t be surprised if you’re cared for a type of doctor you’ve never heard of: a hospitalist. Unlike traditional doctors, this new breed of physician doesn’t see ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the title “hospitalist,” or physicians whose work centers around a location of care — the hospital — rather than a disease, patient type or organ. Here are 10 ...

An 18-month study comparing a hospitalist group with a high physician assistant to physician ratio to one with a low ratio found no difference in clinical outcomes. The study, conducted by researchers ...

Hospitalist programs have been used as a way to more efficiently deliver healthcare in the hospital setting for decades now. But the way an organization deploys personnel in a hospitalist program can ...

More and more medical centers are relying on hospitalists -- hospital-based internal medicine specialists who coordinate the complex care of inpatients. Now, an 18-month study comparing two ...

Q: What is a hospitalist? A: If you or a family member wind up spending time in a hospital as an inpatient these days, it’s likely you will come in contact with a hospitalist — a board-certified ...

Objective: To compare initial and long-term hospital resourceutilization of hospitalists and general internists at an urban communityhospital. Study Design: A retrospective cohort analysis. Methods: ...

A 2021 report showed that out of six specialties, including neurosurgery, hospitalist medicine is the sole specialty whose malpractice claims rate continues to climb. Housed in an enormous nutshell, ...

HILLTOWN, Pa., Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/-- Despite a slow economy and uncertainty about the future of health care reimbursements, hospitalists continue to see healthy increases in their ...

Sometimes at the end of their hospital stay, patients ask Dr. Muhammad Malik for his card. Where’s your clinic, they ask, I’d love you to be my primary care provider. Malik shakes his head with a ...