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 …

BACKGROUND: Hospital medicine has grown rapidly, but hospital leaders' perceptions of
current and future drivers of hospitalist growth are unknown. OBJECTIVE: To determine …

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 …

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 …

• Background: Hospitalist groups are heterogeneous and the ideal model for inpatient care
is not known. Organizational characteristics of hospitalists may impact outcomes.• Objective …

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 …

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 …

Objective: To describe local health care market dynamics that support increasing use of
hospitalists' services and changes in their roles. Design: Semistructured interviews in 12 …