RT Journal
A1 Nelson JR, Wellikson L, Wachter RM
T1 Specialty hospitalists: Analyzing an emerging phenomenon
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD April 25
VO 307
IS 16
SP 1699
OP 1700
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.526
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.526
AB 
The hospitalist model emerged in the mid-1990s as an alternative to primary care physicians managing their own patients both in and out of the hospital. Driven by a variety of forces, including increasing pressure to improve quality and safety, limits on house staff duty hours, generally positive outcome data, and increasing support of the model by primary care physicians and specialists, the number of hospitalists has increased substantially. Today, more than 30 000 hospitalists staff approximately 70% of US hospitals.1