Abdominal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a vital, rapid, and noninvasive diagnostic tool used by hospitalists to detect ...

Navigating academic promotion for hospitalists involves understanding evolving criteria, institutional variations, and the ...

Introducing the Literature Lounge! As readers of The Hospitalist know, our In the Literature column is quite popular, with ...

This article discusses the challenges and nuances involved in using CAUTI and CLABSI rates as performance measures for ...

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HIV treatment has significantly evolved over the past 30 years, transforming HIV from a fatal disease to a manageable chronic ...

Overdiagnosis in the inpatient setting poses significant challenges, including unnecessary treatments and harms to patients, ...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) faces significant hospitalist staffing shortages, especially in rural areas, ...

Throughout the early 2000s, awareness grew within the infectious disease and hospital medicine communities, driven by evidence revealing that 20% to 50% of antibiotic prescriptions in U.S. hospitals ...

Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine ...

Clinical question: In the context of increasing antibiotic resistance and changing microbiology of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP), does secondary SBP prophylaxis reduce the recurrence of SBP ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, advances in technology, and new views about work-life balance have all impacted how medical residents learn in recent years. “Although the evolution of digital learning was ...