BACKGROUND Payers are increasingly holding hospitals accountable for patients'
experiences with their care. This may conflict with another trend among US hospitals …

BACKGROUND Hospitalists, defined as hospital‐based physicians who take responsibility
for managing the medical needs of inpatients, represent a significant trend in physician …

The rapid emergence of hospitalist care in the United States has been extraordinary, with
more than 20,000 hospitalists practicing today. 1 Several factors underlie this growth …

Objective: To compare hospitalist physician and program characteristics in the United States
and Canada. Design: Cross-sectional study using survey instruments. Measurements …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Growth in the care of hospitalized patients by hospitalists has
the potential to increase the productivity of office-based primary care physicians (PCPs) by …

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 …

The hospitalist movement represents a novel paradigm of health care delivery in the USA, its
evolution hastened by a variety of financial, clinical, and time pressures. Hospitalists are site …

BACKGROUND: The increase in hospitalist‐provided inpatient care may be accompanied
by an expectation of improvement on patient outcomes. To date, the association between …

The field of hospital medicine has become a widely accepted model for inpatient care and
has grown rapidly in the past ten years. The impetus for growth has largely been pressure to …

From perhaps a few hundred practitioners in 1996 to an estimated 30,000 today, the
discipline called hospital medicine has shown remarkably rapid growth. It represents a …