Founded in summer 2025, SHM’s Geriatrics Special Interest Group brings hospitalists together to advance age-friendly care for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leaders provide a clear vision, empower others, and direct and motivate their teams to achieve common goals. And although more women work in the medical field than ever before, men dominate ...

Palliative care is both a medical specialty and an art. However, the number of clinicians trained in palliative care is insufficient to meet the increasing demand for goals-of-care and advance care ...

We’ve all said to ourselves hundreds of times, “I need to stay more up to date on the medical literature.” For hospitalists with ever-increasing patient care and administrative responsibilities, it ...

After six months of critical care rotations during my internal medicine residency, I felt well prepared to perform most of the procedures that were core competencies. But after a few years in practice ...

The Cleveland Clinic was the first major academic medical center to make improving patient experience a strategic goal. In 2007, the medical institution hired its first chief patient experience ...