hospitalist, Hospital Medicine

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There are now more than 50,000 of these medical professionals in hospitals across the country. Here's how they've changed inpatient care.

The 20th Anniversary of the Hospitalist

We talked to Columbia University Medical Center Dean Lee Goldman about how hospitalists contribute to inpatient care.

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Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Their activities include patient care, teaching, research, and leadership related to Hospital Medicine.

About Us: What Is a Hospitalist? - UCSD Hospital Medicine

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Hospital medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hospital medicine in the United States is the discipline concerned with the medical care of ... The term hospitalist was first coined by Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article. The scope of hospital ...

hospitalist

Pronunciation: /ˈhäspədələst/  

Entry from US English dictionary

NOUN

A dedicated in-patient physician who works exclusively in a hospital.

Example sentences

• The hospitalist medical director oversaw the nurse practitioners and the attending physicians in the intervention group, wrote the disease-specific pathways, and assembled and orchestrated the daily multidisciplinary team.
• Referred to as hospitalists, these physicians care for patients only during hospitalization.
• This rapid communication provides a valuable and timely link for office follow-up and helps provide the necessary communication between hospitalists or subspecialists and primary care physicians.