Opinions and COMMENTARIES

Latest articles

What’s in a name – defining hospitalists in Canada

 

Healthy Debate, October 26, 2015

Excerpt

Over the past two decades, delivery of inpatient care at acute care institutions has changed dramatically in Canada, with fewer family doctors following their patients in hospitals and the emergence of a growing number of hospitalists. Despite this growth, there is no uniform understanding of who hospitalists are, what they do and what types of clinical and non-clinical competencies constitute the field of hospital medicine.

 
Vandad Yousefi