What about care for hospital patients? Is that Primary Care?

Primary Care physicians primarily provide comprehensive, longitudinal care for patients in the outpatient/continuity clinic but can also care for patients in other settings, such as the hospital, when appropriate. Physicians in any of the primary care specialties who practice exclusively in the hospital are then more commonly referred to as hospitalist physicians, not general primary care, as hospital-based medicine focuses on acute illness rather than prevention, chronic disease management, and continuity of care.