title: Hospitalists: in-house docs can ease some vexing problems, but first you've got to win over the skeptics.
abstract: In-house physicians can alleviate many headaches, such as keeping the ED staffed and making sure a doctor is on hand when a patient's regular physician is unavailable. Success depends on resolving turf wars between hospitalists and other docs, dearly defining duties and workload, and designing pay to reward both volume and quality.
authors.forename: Dagmara
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Scalise
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004651:Employment; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D020445:Hospitalists; D006801:Humans; D007325:Institutional Practice / Q000639:trends*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload