Background: The landmark adoption of the 80 hour work week by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), followed by shift-length restrictions has forced both hospitals and residency programs to restructure who provides acute medical care and in what fashion. Academic Medical Centers have increasingly relied on hospitalists as traditional teaching attendings, in the […]

Background: Hospitalists frequently prescribe ondansetron for nausea and vomiting. However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved this agent only for prophylaxis of nausea and emesis related to chemotherapy or radiation therapy or for postoperative patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and predictors of off‐label ondansetron use in hospitalized […]