Hospital medicine has grown from a physician specialty that did not exist in name 20 years
ago to a burgeoning field of over 48,000 hospitalists 1 practicing in almost 80% of US …

Explore the evolution of organization theory in the health care sector Advances in Health
Care Organization Theory, 2nd Edition, introduces students in health administration to the …

Adult critical care medicine (CCM) is ill prepared for the demands of an aging US
population. Sources have acknowledged a severe shortage of intensivists, yet there has …

BACKGROUND An increasingly large proportion of inpatient care is provided by hospitalists.
The care discontinuities inherent to hospital medicine raise concerns about malpractice risk …

Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age presents a wide, panoramic view into the state
of modern professional work in the United States. Struggling labor markets, growing …

Introduction: The concept of a hospitalist has been well established. This model has been
associated with reduced length of stay contributing to reduction in healthcare costs. Minimal …

Objectives: Increasingly, hospitalists across the United States provide primary inpatient care
for almost all subspecialty patients, including hematology and medical oncology. Febrile …

Background: Hospitalists have become dominant providers of inpatient care in many North
American hospitals. Despite the global growth of hospital medicine, no objective method has …

This chapter presents the case for the application of social network analysis (SNA)—also
referred to as social network theory or simply network theory—to the study of organizations …

Importance Maintaining an outpatient practice and providing high-quality inpatient care pose
significant challenges to the traditional call team approach. Objective To introduce a unique …