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Publish date: May 4, 2021

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Clinical

Children and COVID: Weekly cases resume their climb
Publish date: December 14, 2021
Epilepsy linked to 1.5-fold higher COVID-19 mortality in hospital
Publish date: December 14, 2021
Treatment of opioid use disorder in hospitalized patients
Publish date: December 14, 2021
D-dimer thresholds rule out PE in meta-analysis
Publish date: December 14, 2021
Oral step-down therapy for infective endocarditis
Publish date: December 13, 2021
Anticoagulant choice in antiphospholipid syndrome–associated thrombosis
Publish date: December 10, 2021
Chronically interrupted: The importance of communication with patient and family during the COVID-19 pandemic
Publish date: December 9, 2021
Apixaban a reasonable alternative to warfarin in patients with severe renal impairment
Publish date: December 9, 2021
New data on rare myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination
Publish date: December 8, 2021
The top pediatric hospital medicine articles of 2020
Publish date: December 8, 2021

Quality

Does morning discharge really improve hospital throughput?
Publish date: December 13, 2021
Chronically interrupted: The importance of communication with patient and family during the COVID-19 pandemic
Publish date: December 9, 2021
Pandemic innovations that will outlast COVID
Publish date: November 11, 2021
Geographic cohorting increased direct care time and interruptions
Publish date: October 20, 2021
QI reduces daily labs and promotes sleep-friendly lab timing
Publish date: October 15, 2021

Public Policy

AMA, hospital group sue federal government over surprise billing law
Publish date: December 9, 2021
New CMS rule challenges hospitals, but not vendors, to make EHRs safer
Publish date: September 14, 2021
Biden vaccine mandate rule could be ready within weeks
Publish date: September 13, 2021
Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act
Publish date: June 17, 2021
Visa worries intensify pandemic stress for immigrant hospitalist moms
Publish date: June 1, 2021

Practice Management

A case-based framework for de-escalating conflict
Publish date: December 14, 2021
Does morning discharge really improve hospital throughput?
Publish date: December 13, 2021
Is mindfulness key to helping physicians with mental health?
Publish date: December 8, 2021
Care via video teleconferencing can be as effective as in-person for some conditions
Publish date: December 6, 2021
Residency programs readjust during COVID
Publish date: December 3, 2021
Ten changes that could keep clinicians in the workforce in a pandemic
Publish date: December 2, 2021
Did prior authorization refusals lead to this patient’s death?
Publish date: November 29, 2021
Hospitalists helped plan COVID-19 field hospitals
Publish date: November 18, 2021
Pandemic innovations that will outlast COVID
Publish date: November 11, 2021
What does it mean to be a trustworthy male ally?
Publish date: November 10, 2021

From the Society

Reflecting on 2021, looking forward to 2022
Publish date: December 10, 2021
Mean leadership
Publish date: September 23, 2021
Trio of awardees illustrate excellence in SHM chapters
Publish date: September 16, 2021
SHM’s Center for Quality Improvement to partner on NIH grant
Publish date: August 12, 2021
Never prouder to be a hospitalist
Publish date: August 3, 2021

Video

Critical care and COVID-19: Dr. Matt Aldrich
Publish date: March 30, 2020
Treatment options for COVID-19: Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer
Publish date: March 25, 2020
Managing the COVID-19 isolation floor at UCSF Medical Center
Publish date: March 23, 2020
DAPA-HF: Dapagliflozin’s HFrEF efficacy confirmed in nondiabetics
Publish date: November 17, 2019
Oral beta-lactams provide noninferior postdischarge pyelonephritis treatment
Publish date: October 5, 2019