Disciplines and Occupations

Hospital Medicine

The branch of medicine concerned with the delivery of comprehensive medical care to hospitalized patients. Practitioners include physicians and non-physician providers who engage in clinical care, teaching, research, or leadership in the field of general hospital medicine.(from http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Hospitalist_Definition)

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Abstract

The branch of medicine concerned with the delivery of comprehensive medical care to hospitalized patients. Practitioners include physicians and non-physician providers who engage in clinical care, teaching, research, or leadership in the field of general hospital medicine.(from http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Hospitalist_Definition)

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Medicine, Hospital

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

use for the specialty only

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History Note

2014

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Tree Number

  1. H02w.403w.377w

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NLM Classification

WX 21

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Hospital Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D064416. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D064416
  2. Hospital Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_medicine
  3. Hospital Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5908738