TABLE OF CONTENTS 16 February 1999 Volume 130 Issue 4 Part 2 ( )	Previous Issue  |  Next Issue

Foreword

Robert M. Wachter

An Introduction to the Hospitalist Model

Robert M. Wachter

Hospitalists and the Practice of Inpatient Medicine: Results of a Survey of the National Association of Inpatient Physicians

Peter K. Lindenauer, Steven Z. Pantilat, Patricia P. Katz, and Robert M. Wachter

The Park Nicollet Experience in Establishing a Hospitalist System

Richard B. Freese

Implementation of a Hospitalist System in a Large Health Maintenance Organization: The Kaiser Permanente Experience

Diane E. Craig, Liz Hartka, William H. Likosky, William M. Caplan, Paul Litsky, and Jannalee Smithey

An Employer's Perspective on Hospitalists as a Source of Improved Health Care Value

Arnold Milstein

The Impact of Hospitalists on Medical Education and the Academic Health System

Lee Goldman

The Hospitalist Model: Perspectives of the Patient, the Internist, and Internal Medicine

Harold C. Sox

The Hospitalist: A New Medical Specialty?

Mark A. Kelley

Evaluating the Impact of Hospitalists

Jonathan Showstack, Patricia P. Katz, and Ellen Weber

The Hospitalist: New Boon for Internal Medicine or Retreat from Primary Care?

Steven A. Schroeder and Renie Schapiro