This page provides links to information on trends and guidelines about the model of health care delivery that uses a dedicated inpatient physician (or "hospitalist") to manage the inpatient care of general adult medicine patients referred by primary care physicians in the community. Family physicians are participating both as referring and receiving physicians in this model.
Hospitalists
Guidelines for Interaction in "Hospitalist" Models
-- Expectations for communication between receiving and referring physicians in such models.
Hospitalist Systems of Inpatient Care Management
-- Principles AAFP supports as health care systems experiment with models of inpatient care.
