Health System Drivers of Hospital Medicine in Canada- a Systematic Review

Vandad Yousefi, Canadian Family Physician July 2013 vol. 59 no. 7.

This article aims to identify the underlying systemic drivers of the development and ongoing expansion of hospitalist programs in Canada. Many drivers have been cited in the literature as reasons behind the emergence and growth of the hospitalist model in the Canadian health care system. While their interplay makes simple cause-and-effect conclusions difficult, these drivers demonstrate that hospitalist programs in Canada have developed in response to a complex set of provider, system, and patient factors.