Dr. Tran shares her thoughts on PHM 2026 and the connection and communication that brought pediatricians together at this conference.

Plasma microbial cell-free DNA next-generation sequencing, commonly called the Karius test, can identify microbial DNA in blood when conventional testing is unrevealing. Its results require selective ...

Children with medical complexity often face developmental vulnerabilities that can be worsened by hospitalization. The session recap describes how hospitals can preserve developmental opportunities by ...

At PHM 2026, a well-attended session presented practical applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models for inpatient pediatric practice. It combined hands-on ...

Clinical Question: Is oral anticoagulant monotherapy safer and more effective than dual antithrombotic therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), coronary artery disease (CAD), and advanced ...

I recently had the opportunity to go to a nearby pharmacy to get a fairly common prescription refilled. I thought using my insurance-negotiated price would be the obvious cheap option to help price my ...

For all the expansion of hospital medicine beyond its original focus on the hospital floor—incorporating extensivists, skilled-nursing-facility-ists, laborists, nocturnists, etc.—an essential role in ...

The 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock represent the first major update since 2021 and incorporate new evidence across sepsis recognition ...

Hospitalists continue to grapple with the best multimodal way to control patient pain while maximizing the use of medications and other available choices. “Pain is uniquely personal and requires ...

As a quaternary academic referral center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) is heavily reliant on transfers from referring hospitals and experiences a high volume of such ...

Leaders provide a clear vision, empower others, and direct and motivate their teams to achieve common goals. And although more women work in the medical field than ever before, men dominate ...

In partnership with our members and SHM’s Board of Directors, we are exploring ways SHM can support the hospital medicine community as we collectively monitor the key factors outlined above and how ...