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Weingarten et al¹ have addressed the quality of care provided by subspecialists working outside their specialty. However, as the authors note in the "Data Source" section of their article, only 1 of the 6 hospitals in the Cleveland, Ohio, consortium had a hospitalist program. Therefore, an important distinction needs to be drawn between subspecialists trained as hospitalists (commonly but not exclusively pulmonologists) and those not trained as hospitalists.

While Weingarten and colleagues' article may be unable to address this issue, future research should certainly do so. Otherwise, the current results could be misinterpreted as arguing either for or against the "hospitalist movement."

I, along with most other hospitalists, strongly believe that those of us who are trained and/or experienced as hospitalists provide more efficient and higher-quality care to patients outside our specialties than do nonhospitalists. We also expect this opinion to be validated as the field continues to grow.

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