When the Algorithm Speaks First Decision often begins before the clinical encounter starts. I open the chart and immediately see a banner alert identifying a patient as high risk for sepsis or... The ...

Clinical Question: Can an oral probiotic lozenge containing Streptococcus salivarius K12 minimize radiation-induced mucositis? Background: Patients with head and neck cancer are often treated with ...

Before he was involved in department leadership, Shivi Sharma, MBBCh, associate director of the hospitalist service at Yale New Haven Health and assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Yale ...

A 72-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is admitted to a medical unit with pneumonia. Overnight, his oxygen requirement increases from 4 L/min via nasal cannula to... An 82 ...

Adult hospital medicine fellowships are neither required nor easy to define, making it difficult to communicate their existence and benefits to potential candidates. To help navigate the world of ...

The SHM Greater Philadelphia Area chapter emphasizes stable leadership, community building, mentorship, and collaboration across health systems to support hospitalists’ professional development, ...

Dr. Kacheria is a PGY-2 in the Abrazo Health internal medicine residency program in Glendale, Ariz.

Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total ...

The physician expects the beneficiary to require hospital care spanning at least two midnights. The physician provides a service on Medicare’s inpatient-only list. The physician expects the ...

Now in its 13th year, Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) continues to incentivize hospitals to do a better job of coordinating the care of patients they are discharging to ...

As an example, let’s look at the difference in RW, LOS, and reimbursement in an otherwise identical patient based on documenting altered mental status (AMS), delirium, or encephalopathy. (see Table 1) ...

Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...