BACKGROUND: Academic medical centers (AMCs) have a constrained resident work force.
Many AMCs have increased the use of nonresident service hospitalists to manage …

BACKGROUND: Within the last decade hospitalists have become an integral part of
inpatient care in the United States and now care for about half of all Medicare patients …

BACKGROUND Despite the dramatic growth of hospitalists, no studies have evaluated the
type and frequency of activities that hospitalists perform. To evaluate the types and …

Importance The working schedules of hospitalists vary widely. Discontinuous schedules,
such as 24 hours on and 48 hours off, result in several hospitalists providing care during a …

PERSPECTIVE n engl j med 356; 26 www. nejm. org june 28, 2007 2666 frequent in
teaching hospitals as a result of the scheduling changes made to comply with the workhour …

Background Hospitalist physicians' workload–the total number of patients they care for daily–
is rising in the US Hospitalists report that increased workload negatively affects patients …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The 2003 and 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education (ACGME) common program requirements compress busy inpatient schedules …

Methods We developed an online survey to prospectively collect data on hospitalists' and
discharge planners' perceived delays in treatment or discharge for patients on their general …

METHODS We used 100% Texas Medicare claims data for January 1, 2014, through
December 31, 2014. Hospitalists (n= 2334) were identified as generalist physicians with≥ …

BACKGROUND: It has been established that residents are able to evaluate more patients
per hour as they progress through training. However, it is unknown if shift length influences …