TY  - JOUR
T1  - Pediatric hospitalists: Coming of age in 2012
AU  - Landrigan CP, Srivastava R
Y1  - 2012/08/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.484
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 696
EP  - 699
VL  - 166
IS  - 8
N2  - 
Hospitalists—physicians focusing on the care of hospitalized patients—first appeared on the landscape of American health care in 1996.1 In the ensuing 16 years, hospital medicine has become the fastest growing specialty in the United States.2- 3 Hospitalists are now found caring for hospitalized children and adults in large and small hospitals across North America. When pediatric hospitalist systems first began to emerge, hospitalists' roles were largely clinical, filling a gap in the care of hospitalized children that had grown during the prior decades as pediatric hospitalization became at once less common and more complex. The introduction of pediatric hospitalist systems was consistently associated with significant efficiency advantages,4 likely owing to hospitalists' familiarity with hospital systems and to their clinical expertise in hospital medicine.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.484
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.484
ER  -