• Article

    Gaps Remain in Hospital Discharge Education

    December 1, 2023

    Clinical question: What are medicine floor patients told about their hospital discharge instructions and by whom? Dr. Mutter Background studies: Prior studies have demonstrated suboptimal...

  • Article

    Systemic Corticosteroids for Patients with Severe CAP

    December 1, 2023

    Clinical question: Among patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), does the addition of corticosteroids reduce mortality? Dr. Salline Background: Corticosteroids are used...

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    Transcatheter Arterialization Provides Safe and Effective Treatment for No-option CLI

    December 1, 2023

    Clinical question: Is transcatheter arterialization of lower extremity deep veins safe and effective in preventing above-ankle amputation in patients with advanced chronic limb ischemia (CLI) who are...

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    How Do We Close the Gap in Gender Disparities Among Hospitalists?

    December 1, 2023

    Since gender-based discrimination in education was prohibited by the passage of Title IX, women have steadily gained parity in the numbers graduating from medical school classes. The illusion of...

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    SHM SIG Leaders Reflect on 2023

    December 1, 2023

    As the year comes to a close, we asked leaders of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs) what their groups accomplished this year, what was the best thing that happened to them professionally and/or...

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    Hospitalists Explore Evolving Roles in Telemedicine

    December 1, 2023

    When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, health care providers had to learn in a hurry how to navigate telemedicine and virtual, distant encounters with patients—using technologies that...

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    SIG Spotlight: Night Medicine

    December 1, 2023

    When hospitalist Neil Desai, MD, started as a night doctor, he would get the same question for years. It came from colleagues and family members alike—and no one meant anything by it. They just...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Iowa

    December 1, 2023

    Every SHM chapter likes to focus on the so-called big-tent philosophy, the idea that a group’s success is enhanced by having members who aren’t just hospitalists, but who are in the hospital...

  • Movers and Shakers November 2023

    November 16, 2023

    Dr. Davidyock John Davidyock, MD, FACP, SFHM, has been named senior vice president and chief physician executive at UF Health Central Florida, Leesburg, Fla. Most recently he served as vice...

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    Questions Remain About Nirsevimab’s Impact

    November 16, 2023

    The new monoclonal antibody nirsevimab may radically change incidence and outcomes for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in young pediatric patients, especially when combined with the...