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Hospitalists: Leading the Way to More Effective, Higher Quality Health Care
Hospital inpatients are sicker today than they were in past decades and treatment regimens are more technologically complex than ever before. These realities, combined with pressures on hospitals to control costs, increase efficiency, improve patient outcomes and reduce medical errors are changing the nature of inpatient care.
Doctor-Less Patients in Good Hands for Ten Years
By Sonja Puzic, The Windsor Star
September 10, 2009
Matt and Agnes Juba are photographed at Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor on Thursday, September 10, 2009. While Matt Juba is in the hospital, his care is managed by a hospitalist, a family doctor assigned to patients who are admitted without a family doctor of their own. The hospitalist program is marking its 10-year anniversary.
Photograph by: Tyler Brownbridge, The Windsor Star
How Canadian Hospitalists Spend Their Time— A Work-Sampling Study Within a Hospital Medicine Program in Ontario
Vandad Yousefi. Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management.2011;18(4):159-163Background: Despite significant growth of hospital medicine in Canada over the past decade, little is known about the characteristics of hospitalist pro- grams and how they operate.
Objective: To understand the type of activities hospitalists perform and the amount of time they spend on performing various tasks.
Re-designing Hospital Care: Learning from the Experience of Hospital Medicine in Canada
- Vandad Yousefi, David Wilton. Journal of Global Health Care Systems, 2011; 1(3)
The emergence of the hospitalist model (a model of inpatient care delivery by physicians referred to as hospitalists who spend the majority of their time in the hospital setting) has been a major development in the Canadian healthcare landscape over the past decade. Similar to the United States, the number of hospitalist programs in Canada has grown exponentially since the late 1990's. More recently, the model is being adopted in other countries such as Singapore and Brazil. The Canadian hospitalist model is still evolving, but its development can provide learning opportunities for policy makers and healthcare practitioners in other countries who are developing their own versions of this health delivery model.
Go to The Journal of Global Health Care Systems to read the full article or download the attached full text pdf.
