Hospital Medicine
Hospital medicine, a medicine that exists as a branch of internal or family practice in some countries, which handles the care of patients in hospital who are acutely ill. Doctors whose main professional objective only takes care of sick patients when they are in the hospital are considered hospitalists. Studies have found that general residency training is insufficient because common hospital problems such as neurology and
palliative care and improvement in quality tend to be overlooked, while it was commonly believed that any residency program with a significant component of the hospital provides good hospital training. Hospitalists reduce the length of stay, the cost of treatment and improve the overall efficiency of care for patients in hospital. Hospitalists are involved in many quality improvement programs in key fields, including treatment transfers, patient co-management, hospital-acquired
disease prevention and patient care optimisation.
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