title: The balancing breed. Is it time for a new class of inpatient specialists?
abstract: They can shave a full day off the average hospital stay. At one facility, they lopped 20 percent off inpatient costs. ¿That's a slam dunk for us,¿ says one of the new class of doctors known as hospitalists.
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Speer
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D017046:Cost Savings; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000639:trends*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D008511:Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000639:trends; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010821:Physicians, Family; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States