The hospitalist movement: ten issues to consider.
The rapidly growing hospitalist model appears to be living up its promise to improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of hospital care. The important issues no longer relate to its continued existence--even skeptics concede that it is here to stay. Instead, concern surrounds the myriad organizational and clinical issues that inevitably appear whenever there is a major change in the health care system.
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Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, USA.
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