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The New Doctor : How Hospitalists Remade Hospital Care in Canada
Yousefi, V., & Wilton, D. (2011). Re-designing Hospital Care: Learning from the Experience of Hospital Medicine in Canada. Journal of Global Health Care Systems, 1(3), 1-11.
Yousefi, V., & Maslowski, R. (2013). Health system drivers of hospital medicine in Canada: Systematic review. Canadian Family Physician, 59, 762-767. 3.
Barcelos, G., Gandara, E., Yousefi, V., Lucena, F., Hsu, N.-C., Valovska, T., & Conrad, K. (2018). The Background and Development of Hospital Medicine as a Specialty Globally: The Challenges of International Hospital Medicine. In K. Conrad (Ed.), Clinical Approaches to Hospital Medicine (pp. 271-283). Springer International Publishing AG.
Smith, S. D. (2015). History of Canadian Hospitalist programs. In Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine – Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine: Care of the Medical Inpatient (pp. 16-19). Canadian Society of Hospital Medicine.
A Burning Platform : The Crisis of Burnout Amongst Hospital Physicians
Yousefi V. Prevalence of burnout and impact of workload on physician wellness: A cross-sectional survey of hospitalists in British Columbia, Canada. J Hosp Med. 2025 Jul;20(7):688-700. doi: 10.1002/jhm.13577. Epub 2025 Jan 1. PMID: 39741466; PMCID: PMC12217418.
Knees M, Burden M. High burnout and low work well-being create a burning platform for safer hospitalist clinical workloads. J Hosp Med. 2025 Mar;20(3):317-318. doi: 10.1002/jhm.13534. Epub 2024 Oct 16. PMID: 39410917.
Warner ME, Weinstein AA, Venkatesan C, de Avila L, Taori M, Younossi ZM. The work environment and hospitalist work well-being and burnout. J Hosp Med. 2025 Mar;20(3):229-237. doi: 10.1002/jhm.13506. Epub 2024 Sep 30. PMID: 39344938.
Importance of training and certification of hospitalists in Canada
Smith, S. D., & Sivjee, K. (2012). Defining training needs, core competencies and future certification for Canadian hospitalists. CMAJ, 184(14), 1557-1558. doi:10.1503/cmaj.110925.
Yousefi, V., Coke, W., & Eisner, J. (2021). Training and certification for hospital medicine programs support the essential role of hospitalists for complex multi-morbid patients in acute care. Canadian Journal of Physician Leadership, 7(3), 125–131. doi:10.37964/cr24738.
Doctors as System Builders : A Blueprint for Better Healthcare
Yousefi, V., Asghari-Roodsari, A., Evans, S., & Chan, C. Determinants of hospital-based physician participation in quality improvement: A survey of hospitalists in British Columbia, Canada. Glob J Qual Saf Healthc. 2020;3:6-13. doi:10.4103/JQSH.JQSH_17_19.
Perreira, T., Prokopy, M., Brown, A., Greenberg, A., Wright, J., Shea, C., & Simard, J. Measuring physician engagement in quality improvement: a pilot study. Can J Physician Leadersh.
Mathura, P., Marini, S., Spalding, K., Duhn, L., McMurtry, N., & Kassam, N. Physician-led quality improvement: a blueprint for building capacity. Can J Physician Leadersh. 2022;8(2):51-8. doi:10.37964/cr24749.
Canada's Most Complex Patients
Colacci, M., Loffler, A., Roberts, S.B., Straus, S., Verma, A.A., & Razak, F. (2025). Patient Complexity, Social Factors, and Hospitalization Outcomes at Academic and Community Hospitals. JAMA Network Open, 8(1), e2454745.
Griffith, L.E., Gruneir, A., Fisher, K., Panjwani, D., Gafni, A., Patterson, C., Markle-Reid, M., & Ploeg, J. (2019). Insights on multimorbidity and associated health service use and costs from three population-based studies of older adults in Ontario with diabetes, dementia and stroke. BMC Health Services Research, 19, 313.
Verma, A.A., Guo, Y., Kwan, J.L., Lapointe-Shaw, L., Rawal, S., Tang, T., Weinerman, A., Cram, P., Dhalla, I.A., Hwang, S.W., Laupacis, A., Mamdani, M.M., Shadowitz, S., Upshur, R., Reid, R.J., & Razak, F. (2017). Patient characteristics, resource use and outcomes associated with general internal medicine hospital care: The General Medicine Inpatient Initiative (GEMINI) retrospective cohort study. CMAJ Open, 5(4), E842-E849.
Yousefi, V., Hejazi, S., & Lam, A. (2020). Impact of Hospitalists on Care Outcomes in a Large Integrated Health System in British Columbia. Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management, 27(2), 60-68