2014 State of Hospital Medicine Survey

If you are a hospital medicine group, or if you have dedicated hospitalists in your group or department, SHM would like to invite you to complete this survey.

Your responses are extremely important to us, and will be invaluable in creating an up-to-date snapshot of the state of hospital medicine in 2014. The information you provide will be held strictly confidential; your responses will be aggregated with those of other participants, and the results will be published in SHM's bi-annual State of Hospital Medicine report in September, 2014.

Survey Instructions

This survey will be available for completion between January 13, 2014 and March 7, 2014.

To assist you in planning for and completing the survey, we have provided a survey FAQ document, a detailed Survey Guide, and a printable copy of this survey instrument. These documents can be downloaded or printed at www.hospitalmedicine.org/survey.

If you need to exit the survey before completion and return to it later, you may do so by clicking the "Exit this survey" link in the upper right-hand corner of any page - but you can only return to your survey from the same computer you used previously, from which the cookies have not been cleared.

If you have questions about the survey that are not answered in these documents, please contact us at survey@hospitalmedicine.org for further assistance.

If your practice is part of a large entity with multiple hospitalist practices in different locations (such as a management company or multi-hospital integrated delivery system), please contact us at survey@hospitalmedicine.org for an Excel-based survey instrument and additional instructions.

Non-Academic Hospital Medicine Practices: Please be sure to also submit your provider compensation and production data via MGMA's 2014 Physician Compensation and Production Survey, available now at www6.mgma.com.

Participant Benefits

As a benefit of completing this survey, participants will receive a complimentary copy of SHM's 2014 State of Hospital Medicine report.

Individuals who complete the survey will also be entered into a drawing to win the following prizes:

*A complimentary registration to an SHM Leadership Academy (valued at $1,795 for SHM members)
*One of four complimentary registrations to either the 2014 SHM annual meeting, or an annual meeting pre-course (valued at up to $745 for SHM members)

If you submit your survey by the early participation deadline of January 31st, you will receive two entries into the drawing. After that date you will receive only one drawing entry.

Thank you for taking the time to participate in this important survey.