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The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is an American membership society for hospitalists—physicians and other caregivers who practice the specialty of hospital medicine. SHM is focused on supporting the hospital medicine industry and individual hospitalists. SHM provides continuing education and industry updates for hospitalists in its monthly publication, ''The Hospitalist'' and peer-reviewed journal for hospital medicine, the ''Journal of Hospital Medicine''. In addition to its publications, SHM conducts surveys, prepares written analyses and offers discussion forums that aid in the overall development of the specialty of hospital medicine. SHM is focused on providing resources, programs and mentoring for quality improvement program for reducing readmissions and hospital acquired diseases while optimizing transitions of care, glycemic control and overall patient care. An integral role of SHM has been the development of policy and position statements to address the concerns and issues of hospitalists and advocating on behalf of hospitalists before government and regulatory agencies. ==History== Founded in 1997 by Internists John Nelson, MD, MHM, of Bellevue, Washington and Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM, of Springfield, Massachusetts, SHM was originally known as the National Association of Inpatient Physicians (NAIP). SHM’s goals include promoting high-quality care for hospitalized patients; advancing education and research in hospital medicine; enhancing medical teamwork to achieve the best care for hospitalized patients; supporting career paths to attract and retain high quality hospitalists; defining competencies, activities and needs of the hospitalist community; and advocating, proposing, and promoting changes to the healthcare system that lead to better care by hospitalists. A History of SHM, and in many ways the Hospital Medicine Movement: *1996: In a New England Journal of Medicine article, Drs. Robert M. Wachter and Lee Goldman coin the term “hospitalist” *1997 (January): A national database of hospitalists and hospital medicine programs is developed and put to use by the National Association of Inpatient Physicians (NAIP) with its first newsletter mailing *1997 (April): The initial national meeting of hospitalists is held as NAIP holds its first meeting (“Management of the Hospitalized Patient” Conference), hosted by University of California, San Francisco *1998 (April): NAIP holds its first annual meeting not affiliated with another event *1999 (Spring): NAIP issues a position statement that referrals to hospitalists from primary physicians should be voluntary *2003 (Spring): NAIP officially changes its name to the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Hospitalists fill in for general practitioners )〕 *2008 (September): SHM selects and implements first six Project BOOST pilot sites *2010 (April): SHM published ''The Core Competencies in Pediatric Hospital Medicine'' with endorsement from the Academic Pediatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Society of Hospital Medicine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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