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Exploring the Potential Causes of the Emergence of Hospitalists: Chicken vs. Egg

Exploring the Potential Causes of the Emergence of Hospitalists: Chicken vs. Egg JGIM EDITORIALS Exploring the Potential Causes of the Emergence of Hospitalists: Chicken vs. Egg 1,2 1,3 Luci Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc and Eric Mortensen, MD, MSc, FACP ALMD/UTHSCSA 1 2 VERDICT/South Texas Veterans Health Care System, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA; Department of Medicine, Divisions of Hospital Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA; General Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA. To examine the question of whether hospitalist growth was J Gen Intern Med 25(5):378–9 DOI: 10.1007/s11606-010-1320-2 influenced primarily by decreasing primary care involvement © Society of General Internal Medicine 2010 in the care of hospitalized patients versus increasing hospital- ist activity, Drs. Meltzer and Chung use data from several national sources over the time period of 1980 to 2005 to examine the trends in primary care physician hospital activity before and after the inception of the hospitalist model. They ith the introduction of the term “hospitalist” by Wachter use discharge and length of stay data to calculate the total W and Goldman in 1996 hospital medicine has expanded number of inpatient encounters, and divide this by the 2,3 exponentially . Since that time http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of General Internal Medicine Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2010 by Society of General Internal Medicine
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Medicine & Public Health; Internal Medicine
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JGIM EDITORIALS Exploring the Potential Causes of the Emergence of Hospitalists: Chicken vs. Egg 1,2 1,3 Luci Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc and Eric Mortensen, MD, MSc, FACP ALMD/UTHSCSA 1 2 VERDICT/South Texas Veterans Health Care System, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA; Department of Medicine, Divisions of Hospital Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA; General Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA. To examine the question of whether hospitalist growth was J Gen Intern Med 25(5):378–9 DOI: 10.1007/s11606-010-1320-2 influenced primarily by decreasing primary care involvement © Society of General Internal Medicine 2010 in the care of hospitalized patients versus increasing hospital- ist activity, Drs. Meltzer and Chung use data from several national sources over the time period of 1980 to 2005 to examine the trends in primary care physician hospital activity before and after the inception of the hospitalist model. They ith the introduction of the term “hospitalist” by Wachter use discharge and length of stay data to calculate the total W and Goldman in 1996 hospital medicine has expanded number of inpatient encounters, and divide this by the 2,3 exponentially . Since that time

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Published: Mar 23, 2010

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