Yale New Haven Hospital developed a centralized post discharge team to extend hospitalist oversight beyond discharge, manage ...

Dr. Tran shares her thoughts on PHM 2026 and the connection and communication that brought pediatricians together at this conference.

Recent randomized evidence supports considering anticoagulation discontinuation after successful atrial fibrillation ablation, but only for carefully selected patients who remain arrhythmia-free and ...

At PHM 2026, a well-attended session presented practical applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models for inpatient pediatric practice. It combined hands-on ...

Children with medical complexity often face developmental vulnerabilities that can be worsened by hospitalization. The session recap describes how hospitals can preserve developmental opportunities by ...

Plasma microbial cell-free DNA next-generation sequencing, commonly called the Karius test, can identify microbial DNA in blood when conventional testing is unrevealing. Its results require selective ...

I work clinically in a children’s hospital. I am the program director for a pediatric hospital medicine fellowship. But I’m not a normal hospitalist. In addition to my medical training, I have... A 54 ...

A 54-year-old man with a history of bicuspid aortic valve presents with three weeks of low-grade fevers and fatigue. On examination, he appears fatigued, flushed, and in mild distress with a... A ...

International medical graduates (IMGs) play a prominent role in hospital medicine and the U.S. healthcare system as a whole, yet they often encounter culture shocks as they adjust. That includes ...

The physician editor of The Hospitalist is Weijen Chang, a pediatric and adult hospitalist at Baystate Medical Center and Baystate Children’s Hospital in Springfield, Mass., where he is an associate ...

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 ...

A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper respiratory ...