2023 Compensation & Career Guide
December 2023
How does weekend work affect hospitalists?
How are hospitalists paid: salary, productivity or both?
Sepsis update: fluids and steroids
Managing sepsis and septic shock
Sepsis update: antibiotics and pressors
A look at hospitalist turnover: Who’s coming and who’s going?
November 2023

How many patient encounters per shift is reasonable for hospitalists?
How to keep heart failure patients out of the hospital
Covid memoir: burning out on the frontlines
Hospital at home: Impact on hospitalists, regulations
How to get hospital at home up to scale
Hospital at home: Which patients are eligible?
Hospital at home: Scaling up with new technology and staffing
Treating stroke: this year’s headlines
September/October 2023
A look at average shift lengths for hospitalists
What type of shift do hospitalists work?
How satisfied are hospitalists with their careers?
Hospitalist pay by region: a look at the differences
How many shifts do hospitalists work per month?
Burnout among medical students worse than in physicians
Patient encounters per shift: What’s average for hospitalists?
How does working more shifts affect hospitalist pay?
July/August 2023
COVER STORY: Hiring new hospital nurses?
FEATURE: How comfortable are you giving nurses feedback?
FEATURE: How’s it going with the new inpatient E/M coding changes?
ANALYSIS: Helping doctors access mental health resources
WHAT WORKS: Big benefits from oncology comanagement
May/June 2023
COVER STORY: Bad behavior
ANALYSIS: Do early discharges boost throughput?
Q&A: Making the case for public health care funding
POLL: How many patient encounters per shift should you have?
ONLINE ONLY: How long is an average hospitalist’s shift?
March/April 2023
COVER STORY: Snarled ED?
ANALYSIS: Predicting in-hospital mortality
Q&A: Unmasking shame in medicine
COMMENTARY: Hospitalist LOS: a measure past its time
POLL: A look at hospitalist career satisfaction
EXTRA: Should you board patients in inpatient hallways?
January/February 2023
COVER STORY: Discharge rounds redesigned
WHAT WORKS: “Diagnostic stewardship” gathers steam
COMMENTARY: Performance reviews: What’s missing
POLL: What NPs/PAs in hospital medicine earn
NEWS BRIEFS: Malpractice lawsuits are ramping up


