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title: "Co-Management of Hospitalized Patients: The Risk of Poorly Defined Physician Roles"
description: As more hospitalists care for patients, the concept of co-management has developed as a way to formalize the hospitalist's role in patient care.
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# [Co-Management of Hospitalized Patients: The Risk of Poorly Defined Physician Roles](https://www.norcal-group.com/claimsrx/comanagement-hospitalized-patients)

 Written by [NORCAL Group](https://www.norcal-group.com/claimsrx/author/norcal-group) | Oct 4, 2017

This article focuses on co-management involving a hospitalist. As more hospitalists care for patients, the concept of co-management has developed as a way to formalize the hospitalist's role in patient care. Co-management can have many benefits when it is well planned and executed. When disorganized, poorly designed, inconsistently utilized and/or misunderstood, co-management can expose patients to injury and members of the healthcare team to lawsuits.

| **CASE ONE** Hospitalist and Surgeon Co-management | **CASE TWO ** Hospitalist and Obstetrician Co-management |
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