Medical News Today -- “Growth in the Care of Older Patients by Hospitalists in the United States,” New England Journal of Medicine: The study, by researchers from the Sealy Center on Aging and the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, found that the number of general internal medicine physicians who were characterized as hospitalists increased from 5.9% in 1995 to 19% in 2006, while the number of medical claims related to the evaluation and care management services provided by hospitalists increased from 9.1% in 1995 to 37.1% in 2006. The chance of receiving medical care from a hospitalist increased at an annual rate of 29.2% from 1997 through 2006, and in 2006, the rates of care provided by hospitalists in some geographical regions exceeded 70% (Kuo et al., NEJM, 3/12).
