Pediatric sepsis remains a significant cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Recent guidance emphasizes bundled care, ...

Rising inpatient volume and occupancy exposed admission-triage bottlenecks at a large multisite academic medical center. The ...

Hospitalists are taking increasingly central roles in interfacility triage, transfer management, and capacity coordination.

SHM’s Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter supports hospitalists through professional networking, education, mentorship, ...

Pediatric hospital medicine evolved from a staffing model focused on physician availability into a broad specialty shaped by ...

Between 2020 and 2025, inpatient volumes on the medicine service line at our large, multisite academic medical center (AMC) grew by approximately 83%, and average hospital occupancy exceeded 90%. To..

The 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock represent the first major update since 2021 and incorporate new evidence across sepsis... Sepsis ...

Clinical Question: Does ultrasound-facilitated, catheter-directed thrombolysis improve clinical outcomes in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), right ventricular strain, and signs of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most working hospitalists will see cancer patients regularly on their hospital rounds since it’s the main underlying condition for many hospital admissions—whether for the disease itself, side effects ...

Transfer of patients between hospitals has long been a part of hospitalist life, and most hospitalists can recall any number of challenging situations. Driven by a desire to improve these situations ...