In the last installment of this series, we introduced the concept of critical appraisal of the statistical methods used in a paper. The statistical analysis in a study is often the final barrier ...

Pharmacies have plotted a dynamic course through history, arriving late to North America in relation to other nations. Before the origin of the first true hospital pharmacy, medicinal therapies were ...

It was the best of care. It was the worst of care. It was acts of wisdom; it was acts of foolishness. It was an epoch of evidence; it was an epoch of anecdotes. The patients were full code; they were ...

At times it seems as though the solution to every problem in the medical center is for the hospitalists to do it. At the University of California at San Francisco, my hospitalist colleagues lead ...

Although pediatric resident graduates are well prepared to care for many ill children who require hospitalization, there are clinical, academic, and administrative skills that aren’t a standard part ...

Patients with sepsis exhibit a spectrum of dysfunctional responses ranging from an exaggerated hyperinflammatory state to ...

Regarding conversations with colleagues, providing statistics can be helpful. “Find out what matters to your colleagues and ...

SHM presented two $25,000 Hospital Medicine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarships in April at Converge. Nnamdi Igwe ...

A lot of hospital medicine goes back to the mid-1990s when the term was first coined and the budding specialty’s first bricks ...

Clinical coding is a meticulous task that translates patient notes into specific International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes, crucial for billing and insurance claims.

A 4-year-old female is admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and started on IV antibiotics. You see her after she has been admitted and start some IV fluids for presumed sepsis. On day two, the ...