Medicina interna

Do Hospitalists Improve Quality?

In this issue, in an article examining the association between hospitalists and performance on hospital-level quality indicators, López and colleagues1 found that hospitals with hospitalists have higher "quality of care" scores than those without hospitalists and attribute these improvements to the hospitalists' presence. This article provides interesting data, which unfortunately are not persuasive enough to support that conclusion.
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