Some primary care physicians choose to work in hospitals and are referred to as hospitalists, but the majority work in out-patient settings. ❋ M.D. Helene Pavlov (2011)
Doctors who specialize in the general care of hospital patients -- a relatively new category of doctors called "hospitalists" -- reduce the average hospital stay by 12%, but only modestly lower treatment costs, according to a new study. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Increasingly, a group of doctors called "hospitalists" - physicians, usually internists, that specialize in the care of hospitalized patients - are filling the void left by primary-care physicians who no longer do hospital rounds. ❋ [email protected] (2010)
One of the most striking changes in health care over the last two decades has been a dramatic increase in physicians categorized as "hospitalists" - doctors who practice almost exclusively in hospitals, rather than combining both outpatient and inpatient care. ❋ Unknown (2009)
GALVESTON, Texas -- One of the most striking changes in health care over the last two decades has been a dramatic increase in physicians categorized as "hospitalists" -- doctors who practice almost exclusively in hospitals, rather than combining both outpatient and inpatient care. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One solution gaining in popularity is to hire more nocturnists, a subset of the specialty group known as hospitalists -- physicians who work as full-time staff doctors with no outside patients. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The specialists, called hospitalists, are also supposed to improve quality by riding herd on the details of care, and I get more free time. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It is win-win at least as far as the doctors now known as hospitalists and sometimes noturnists and the hospitals are concerned and sometimes for the internists and family docs who now no longer manage their patient's care when they are hospitalized. ❋ James Gaulte (2007)
Hospital-based doctors, also called hospitalists, have become increasingly common in recent decades, and now tally some 30,000 in the U.S., according to the Society of Hospital Medicine. ❋ Unknown (2011)
With this motto in mind, the organisation shifted its focus is on care on the ground, above all integration of care: allowing patients to move between hospitals, where there was active management of patients; placing common conditions such as hip replacements on care pathways; making use of general physicians known as "hospitalists" to work in the inpatient environment. ❋ Chris Skidmore (2012)
Considered one of the fastest-growing health-care specialties, hospital medicine involves so-called hospitalists who coordinate care for admitted patients who most often do not have an outside primary care physician. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Job listings for physicians who specialize in treating patients in hospitals, or so-called hospitalists, grew 85.7 percent to 31,264 during the last three months of the year, according to the job-listings aggregator Indeed. com. ❋ Unknown (2010)
