Inpatient debate update: Do hospitalists improve care?
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, September 16, 2008
Internet debate erupted this summer among industry experts involved in inpatient medicine. “Do hospitalists actually improve patient care?” was the subject of heated comments, calling the 12-year hospital medicine movement into question. The June 23 Archives of Internal Medicine issue released the arguments of two internal medicine thought leaders: Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP, professor and chief of hospital medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and Robert Centor, professor of general internal medicine and associate dean of the Huntsville Regional Medical Campus at the University of Alabama. The two thinkers respectively authored the articles “Hospitalists and the Hospital Medicine System of Care Are Good for Patient Care” and “A Hospitalist Inpatient System Does Not Improve Patient Care Outcomes.”
Hospitalist care is indeed good for patient care, according to Williams in a Q&A by Today’s Hospitalist. According to Williams and Centor, they agree hospitals need to better utilize hospitalists. Read more in the upcoming November issue of Hospitalist Management Advisor and hear what Robert Centor and Mark V. Williams, MD have to say about their points of differences.
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