Obstetrician-Gynecologist Hospitalists as Educators.

The progressive growth of the hospitalist model of practice over the past 20 years has solidified the role of the obstetrics and gynecology (ob/gyn) hospitalists as an essential component of quality inpatient care. The ob/gyn hospitalist as an educator is proving to be an important role in the future of hospitalist practice. The role as an educator has long-term benefits and implications for the standardization of education and evidence-based patient care both in community-based and academic practice settings.

Women Accessing Care at a National Network of Retail Health Clinics.

Retail health clinics offer easy access and lower costs in seeking nonemergent and usually focused care. The objective of this observational study was to describe the use of retail clinic services by women at MinuteClinic at CVS, the largest network of retail clinics in the United States. The retail clinic's large database included complete national data for every in-person encounter as recorded on the same electronic health record.