Early in his career, Eric Howell, MD, MHM—now the chief executive officer of the Society of Hospital Medicine—was a ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine and Wiley are happy to announce that The Hospitalist has received an APEX Award of Excellence this year for content published in 2024. The October 2024 issue was ...

S HM Converge 2025 was another successful meeting of the minds and gave me the opportunity to learn and network. This year ...

Hospitalist nurse practitioner and physician assistant providers have been a growing and evolving part of the inpatient medical workforce, seemingly since the inception of hospital medicine.

Transparency and communication are key to handling medical board complaints ...

QUIZ A 65-year-old man is admitted for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). On hospital day two, respiratory symptoms are improving while being treated with ceftriaxone and azithromycin. As you are ...

The appropriate treatment of hypertension in the inpatient setting is suboptimal due to the lack of guidelines and inconsistent management.

Medicine is not immune to these injustices. Persistent underrepresentation of women and minorities remains in medical school faculty and the broader physician workforce, and the same inequities exist ...

Tom Collins is a freelance writer in South Florida who has written about medical topics from nasty infections to ethical dilemmas, runaway tumors to tornado-chasing doctors. He travels the globe ...

There are different beta-D-glucan assays used, with different cutoff points for optimal sensitivity and specificity depending on the assay. The three most commonly used assays are Fungitell ...

Hospitalists are uniquely positioned to drive quality-improvement (QI) initiatives across the health care continuum. Our daily interactions span diverse health care teams and specialties. Our care ...

Job stress, moral injury, burnout, and the great resignation—these are very real concerns for the field of hospital medicine, exacerbated by but not limited to the unprecedented challenges of the ...