Background: Hospital medicine groups are often quickly expanding, which causes strategic planning to focus primarily on clinical needs and staffing. It can be difficult to find opportunities for goal setting where consensus within the group can be achieved. This is made even more difficult by the typical hospitalist group providing 24/7/365 coverage, so at no [...]

Background: Virtual Hospitalist (VH) care models are emerging in hospital medicine to address workforce shortages and improve patient access. VH programs are any programs where the hospitalist and patient are located at different sites, but the patient requires an acute level of care. This can include arrangements where: 1) the patient is located in a [...]

Background: There are mounting evidence that the clinical outcomes of conservative blood utilization strategy are equal or superior to liberal blood utilization in patients with anemia in the absence of severe acute hemorrhage, hemodynamic instability, or acute ischemia. However, practice variations among clinicians continue to create a challenge to effective blood utilization stewardship. Hospital Medicine [...]