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 ...

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

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

Despite society guidelines and the aforementioned shortcomings of urinalyses, pyuria and/or nitrites on urinalysis are often equated to UTI or “infected urine” in clinical practice, independent of the ...

Every incentive counts when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent. In particular, today’s hospitalists view funding for continuing medical education (CME) and getting paid time off (PTO) as ...

How do other institutions reduce avoidable readmissions?Venkat Gundareddy, MBBS, MPH, FACP, SFHM, associate director in the division of hospital medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in ...

Clinical question: Does patient sex influence opioid prescription patterns during hospitalization and at discharge on general medicine services? Background: Clinicians may have sex- and gender-based ...

Implementing an Expediting Team and Departure Lounge to eliminate clinical and non-clinical barriers to discharge can lead to sustained improvements in earlier discharges, decreased lengths of stay, ...

How has the inflation reduction act affected prescription drug costs ...

Hospitalists are popular but will need to justify their expanded role going forward, some say; seasoned hospitalists share insight.

Four IMGs share their thoughts on the academic milieu surrounding IMGs, perceptions of their country of origin, and their experiences migrating to the US.

With hospital medicine a newer specialty, mentorship has an extra special role, say several hospitalist leaders who have spent much of their careers serving as mentors for others. Mentoring helps ...