W ith the introduction of the term “hospitalist” by Wachter and Goldman 1 in 1996 hospital
medicine has expanded exponentially 2, 3. Since that time the odds that an inpatient would …

The hospitalist movement, first described in 1996 (1), has grown from several hundred
practitioners to more than 4,000 today. The movement's 2-year-old professional association …

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 …

1. The origin of hospitalists This now meant that the primary care physician who, a
generation earlier, had ten patients in the hospital across Within the last 5 years, there has …

Hospitalists, known as physicians, are an emerging group in the medical field that is focused
on the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Specializing in hospital medicine, they …

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 …

The use of hospitalists has implications for patients, for internists, and for the specialty of
internal medicine. For patients, the greatest concern is interrupting the continuity of a …

Motivated by a search for improved quality and efficiency, increasing numbers of hospitals
and physicians are moving from systems in which all primary care providers manage their …

The growing reliance on hospitalists in the United States has implications for several areas
of internal medicine, including patient care, administration, clinical practice, and medical …

In this issue, two studies by Auerbach and Meltzer and colleagues corroborate past research
on hospitalists and are the first to report that hospitalists' outcomes, including patient …