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Study finds hospitalist care is more cost effective than general internist care

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, January 17, 2008

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Patients cared for by hospitalists had a shorter stay of care and their cost of care was less than patients cared for by general internists, according to a December 2007 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The study also cited hospitalists as the fastest growing physician group in the United States with 55% of hospitals with 200 or more beds having them on their medical staff.

Between 2002 and 2005, the study examined the treatment of 76,926 patients by either hospitalists, general interests, or family physicians. "For common inpatient diagnoses, the hospitalist model is associated with a small reduction in the length of stay without an adverse effect on rates of death or readmission," according to the study.

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