TY  - JOUR
T1  - HOspitalist efforts and improving discharge planning
AU  - Flansbaum B, Williams MV
Y1  - 2011/05/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2011.562
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1766
EP  - 1767
VL  - 305
IS  - 17
N2  - 
Hospitalist growth over the last decade has been substantial, with the percentage of internal medicine physicians identified as hospitalists increasing from 5.9% in 1995 to 19.0% in 2006, with more than 30 000 currently practicing.2 As documented by a systematic review including studies dating to the 1970s (prehospitalist), communication between the hospital and outpatient physician has been a chronic problem and not a new issue that evolved with hospitalists.3 Mor and Besdine wrote that, “ . . . evidence suggests that the hospitalist movement has reduced hospital stays and improved inpatient quality indicators without clear deleterious effects on patient outcomes,” yet they suggest hospitalists may serve as a source of problems with discharge transitions.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.562
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.562
ER  -