Background: In 2013, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ position statement, “Guiding Principles for Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) Programs,” emphasized the importance of professional development for each PHM physician. However, little is published about PHM physicians’ perspectives on professional development. The objectives of this study were to explore pediatric hospitalists’ perceptions of professional development needs, desired [...]

Background: Despite a rapid increase in academic hospitalists, faculty development in academic hospital medicine remains an ongoing challenge. We aim to describe scholarly output and demographics in relation to academic rank distribution and to identify factors associated with academic promotion of a national sample of academic hospital medicine programs. Methods: We extracted demographic and academic [...]

Background: Patients with a pre-existing diagnosis of advanced cancer who discharge to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) after an acute care hospitalization rarely receive future oncologic treatment, have high readmission rates, and minimal hospice use. We aimed to evaluate survivorship of patients discharging to a SNF with a new diagnosis of cancer based on their [...]

Background: Adolescents have poor access to preventive care and outpatient providers face many barriers to addressing sexual health with adolescents. Recent literature advises providers to address sexual health in nontraditional settings including emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations. In our previous work we identified missed opportunities to address sexual health on the hospital medicine service, [...]

Background: Most large academic medical centers across the United States have been facing hospital-capacity strain and hospital census fluctuations for years, though these fluctuations of inpatient census have significantly increased with the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitalists and hospital leaders are uniquely capable of identifying innovations to improve patient flow. Prior research has been insufficient to consistently [...]

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to challenging staffing situations for health systems. Rapid increases in patient volumes, coupled with clinician illness, need for quarantine/isolation as well as other workforce restrictions, have required systems to become nimble in clinician staffing. To overcome these challenges, novel approaches have been utilized including the employment of non-traditional [...]

Background: Croup affects more than 1.4 million children under the age of six in the United States annually. Up to 6% of children with croup are hospitalized at an estimated annual cost of $56 million. Guidelines for Emergency Department (ED) and inpatient management of croup vary and generally rely on limited evidence. Specifically, admission and [...]

Background: Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic relapsing disease that has become an epidemic in the United States. Overdoses of prescription and illicit opioids have killed almost 450,000 Americans between 1999-2018 (1). Guidelines on OUD management recommend, in combination with behavioral therapy, opioid agonist therapy as the first-line treatment option with antagonist therapy as an alternative option. OUD-related inpatient admissions represent [...]

Case Presentation: A 57-year-old male with history of C5-6 spinal cord injury (SCI) presented with recurrent episodes of sweating, flushing, headache, and hypertensive episodes over the past week, with concern for autonomic dysreflexia (AD). The patient is tetraplegic following traumatic SCI 38 years ago associated with remote episodic AD due to neurogenic bladder and adynamic [...]

Background: In 2013, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ position statement, “Guiding Principles for Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) Programs,” emphasized the importance of professional development for each PHM physician. However, little is published about PHM physicians’ perspectives on professional development. The objectives of this study were to explore pediatric hospitalists’ perceptions of professional development needs, desired [...]