The Value of Hospital Medicine / 대한내과학회지

ABSTRACT

In healthcare, value is defined as the measured improvement in a person's health outcomes for the cost of achieving that improvement. In the era of value in healthcare, hospital medicine successfully embraced strategies to improve hospital safety and to reduce medical error, length of stay and medical cost. As a specialist in general care and hospital system, hospitalists should learn topics of hospital medicine including safety, quality improvement, co-management, professionalism and leadership.