Background The use of hospitalists who assume responsibilities for patient care during
inpatient hospital stays is a relatively new phenomenon. Hospitalist programs were initially …

Research on hospitalist programs has primarily focused on large, urban facilities. To fill a
gap in the literature on hospitalist use in rural hospitals, the authors conducted a national …

The use of hospitalists—physicians who limit their practice largely or exclusively to hospital
inpatient care—has been a growing trend in the United States. The authors examine some …

The use of hospitalists in the care of in‐patients is a relatively new phenomenon in the USA–
hospitalists are delivering medical care to patients in private practice, public hospitals, and …

Hospitalists are physicians who spend at least 25% of their professional time serving as the
physicians-of-record for inpatients, during which time they accept" hand-offs" of hospitalized …

Hospitalists, or specialists of hospital medicine, have long been practicing in Canada and
Europe. However, it was not until the mid-1990s, when hospitals in the US started …

Background Despite the growing prevalence of hospitalist programs in Canada, it is not
clear what program features are deemed desirable by administrative and medical leaders …

Hospitalists are physicians trained in general internal medicine that focus their practice on
the care of hospitalized patients. Since 1996, health services researchers have probed …

Background: Hospitalists, or physicians specializing in hospital-based practice, have grown
significantly since they were first introduced in the United States in the mid-1990s. Prior …

ContextWe originally described the hospitalist model of inpatient care in 1996; since then,
the model has experienced tremendous growth. This growth has important clinical, financial …