An 82-year-old female with a history of hypertension and stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD) was admitted with fever, hypotension, and confusion. The workup revealed Escherichia coli bacteremia due ...

A 35-year-old male with Crohn’s disease (CD) presents with diarrhea, frequent abdominal cramps, and fatigue. He is on a tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) inhibitor, infliximab 5 mg/kg infusion every ...

Health literacy impacts patient outcomes and experiences, with many adults struggling to understand health information. Simplifying communication and supporting patients is essential for improving ...

At Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, accurately measuring the length of stay (LOS) and discharge ratios for individual hospitalists has proven to be a significant challenge. The current method of ...

A 68-year-old man on chronic steroids for amiodarone-induced thyroiditis presented with pneumonia, hypotension, and encephalopathy. Though the pneumonia resolved, his encephalopathy worsened, and he ...

October marks Health Literacy Month, a crucial observance dedicated to highlighting the essential role health literacy plays in patient care, especially within hospital medicine. Health literacy—the ...

On November 28, 2021, scrolling through Twitter, I came across a tweet by @SailingKateMD: “Checked my ICU list after being gone for a few days for the holiday…Every single one of my COVID-19 patients ...

The hospital experience can be intimidating for the uninitiated. For hospitalists, however, the hospital is a second home—an environment where we manage patient care with familiarity and confidence.

We, as a nation, recently experienced an influenza epidemic that was the worst in 15 years in my state of Ohio. Questions reminiscent of the pre-pandemic era have resurfaced. A hospital leader ...

Hospitalists are essential in promoting immunization for hospitalized patients, especially with rising vaccine hesitancy post-pandemic. Hospitals are improving protocols to identify and vaccinate ...

Hospitalist nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) providers have been a growing and evolving part of the inpatient medical workforce, seemingly since the inception of hospital medicine.

The United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses. 1 Opioid addiction has a tremendous negative effect on parents and children by ...