Previous studies indicating hospitalists give more efficient and safer care faced significant limitations, according to researchers.  

While most physicians believe that parents' challenges with intimate partner violence, family planning, and health insurance affect children's health, far fewer address such issues in practice.

More needs to be done to improve patient safety in the outpatient setting, said the American College of Physicians in a new policy paper. 

"Once we save people, we have to talk seriously about next steps," says Scott Weiner, MD, FACEP, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Brigham Comprehensive Opioid Response and Education Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital.