- ►annals.org [PDF] AD Auerbach, RM Wachter, P Katz, J … - Annals of internal medicine, 2002 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Previous investigations of the effect of the hospi- talist model on
resource use and patient outcomes have focused on academic medical centers or
have used short follow-up periods. Objective: To determine the effects of ... Cited by 125 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
RM Wachter - Annals of internal medicine, 1999 - Am Coll Physicians Motivated by a search for improved quality and efficiency, increasing numbers of
hospitals and physicians are moving from systems in which all primary care
providers manage their own hospitalized patients or rotate this ... Cited by 123 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
KM Davis, KE Koch, JK Harvey, R Wilson, J … - The American journal of medicine, 2000 - Elsevier RESULTS: The hospitalists' patients had a shorter mean (± SD) length of stay
(4.1 ± 3.0 days versus 5.5 ± 4.9 days, P <0.001) and their cost of care was
less than that of the internists' patients ($4,098 ± $2,455 versus $4,658 ... Cited by 83 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
DE Craig, L Hartka, WH Likosy, WM Caplan, P … - Annals of internal medicine, 1999 - Am Coll Physicians This paper presents preliminary quality and utilization data from a hospitalist
system that is being implemented at Kaiser Permanente, a large health
maintenance organi- zation with 16 hospitals in northern California. ... Cited by 79 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
WH Plauth, SZ Pantilat, RM Wachter, CL … - The American journal of medicine, 2001 - Elsevier Hospitalists serve as physicians-of-record for hospitalized patients after
accepting “hand-offs” from primary care physicians (PCPs). Patients return
to their PCPs at the time of hospital discharge [4]. The majority of a ... Cited by 75 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
PS Bellet, RC Whitaker - Pediatrics, 2000 - Am Acad Pediatrics Design. This retrospective observational study compared a baseline year of a
traditional ward service (TS) with a subsequent year of a new hospitalist system
of care called the Generalist Inpatient Service (GIS). Data were obtained ... Cited by 64 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] JM Huddleston, KH Long, JM Naessens, D … - Annals of internal medicine, 2004 - Am Coll Physicians Participants: 526 patients having elective orthopedic surgery who are at
elevated risk for postoperative morbidity. Measurements: Length of stay,
inpatient postoperative medical complications, health care provider ... Cited by 64 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
AD Auerbach, EA Nelson, PK Lindenauer, SZ … - The American journal of medicine, 2000 - Elsevier RESULTS: We were able to contact 787 of 2,829 physicians who were randomly
selected from a national list of board-certified internists, of whom 400 agreed
to participate. Most respondents were familiar with the term ... Cited by 54 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
D Hackner, G Tu, GD Braunstein, M Ault, S … - Chest, 2001 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Results: Median length of stay was 4 days for control subjects and 3 days for
the hospitalist service (p < 0.0001). Median total cost per case was $4,853 for
control subjects and $4,002 for hospitalist patients (p < 0.0001). Only ... Cited by 42 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
PS Bellet, RM Wachter - Pediatrics, 1999 - Am Acad Pediatrics Over the past several years, the traditional American system of care for
hospitalized adult patients has undergone a revolutionary change. The
traditional system, in which primary care physicians (generally internists ... Cited by 41 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
