Comanagement by Hospitalists: Why It Makes Clinical and Fiscal Sense

Twenty-two years after the term hospitalist was coined, the specialty of hospital medicine continues to evolve, both within the vast domains of internal medicine and pediatrics and to specialties such as obstetrics and gynecology, neurology, and psychiatry, to name a few.1,2 The hospitalist model of care has shown benefits in terms of reductions in cost, mortality, and length of stay, and improvement in quality and safety measures.3 This is evident both where hospitalists are the primary attending and in the comanagement model of care.