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logo Your inpatient care decisions could make or break your local hospital. KATHRYN …

BACKGROUND: Intermediate care, which is provided by community hospitals, is
increasingly seen as one way of reducing pressure on secondary care. However, despite …

Hospitalists, which are estimated to number around 2,500 to 3,000 in the US, are a new
breed of inpatient caregivers, who take the role normally assumed by primary care …

Over the past several years, the traditional American system of care for hospitalized adult
patients has undergone a revolutionary change. The traditional system, in which primary …

Appropriate use of hospitalisation is an important concern in most countries. Previous
studies have relied on professional opinion regarding the appropriateness of hospital stays …

In January 2000, the hospitalist model was still largely unknown but beginning to cause a
stir in the medical community. Realizing that physicians sometimes have reservations about …

T he article by Park and Jones 1 in this issue of JGIM focuses on the potential for primary
care physicians (PCPs) to increase the number of primary care visits they can provide when …

All 52 family practice residency programs that hospitalize pa tients at a university hospital
were surveyed to determine how many have full clinical departments of family practice and …

Background: Hospitalist programs have been growing in all areas of Canada over the past
decade. While many academic hospitals in large urban centres have had internist …

Objectives: Summarize and present benefits of effective management of inpatients in US
hospitals by hospitalists and discuss the possible implications for healthcare system in …