Recent randomized evidence supports considering anticoagulation discontinuation after successful atrial fibrillation ablation, but only for carefully selected patients who remain arrhythmia-free and ...

Dr. Tran shares her thoughts on PHM 2026 and the connection and communication that brought pediatricians together at this conference.

At PHM 2026, a well-attended session presented practical applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models for inpatient pediatric practice. It combined hands-on ...

Plasma microbial cell-free DNA next-generation sequencing, commonly called the Karius test, can identify microbial DNA in blood when conventional testing is unrevealing. Its results require selective ...

Children with medical complexity often face developmental vulnerabilities that can be worsened by hospitalization. The session recap describes how hospitals can preserve developmental opportunities by ...

I work clinically in a children’s hospital. I am the program director for a pediatric hospital medicine fellowship. But I’m not a normal hospitalist. In addition to my medical training, I have... A 54 ...

The physician editor of The Hospitalist is Weijen Chang, a pediatric and adult hospitalist at Baystate Medical Center and Baystate Children’s Hospital in Springfield, Mass., where he is an associate ...

A 60-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer using morphine extended release 30 mg twice daily and as-needed oxycodone for cancer-related pain presents with fever, dyspnea, and productive cough ...

A 45-year-old hospitalist, a familiar face in the system for the past decade, tragically took his own life. His colleagues and staff admired him, and he always had a pleasant working personality.

Hospitalists who entered the field of hospital medicine two or three decades ago may not have anticipated how their careers and the specialty would evolve over time. They have witnessed the expansion ...

Among their many responsibilities, hospitalists typically rank patient care as their number one priority and the education of medical students, residents, and fellows as a critical number two. As ...

Nashville welcomed SHM Converge 2026, and with it one of the conference’s most anticipated annual traditions: the Updates in Hospital Medicine session. Kencee Graves, MD, FHM, clinical professor of ...