Penn Medicine Provider
Hospital Medicine
Kai Xu, MD
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Hospital Medicine HUP
Call 800-789-7366

About me

  • Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Insurance accepted

My Locations

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Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Xu is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Xu K, Renzi N, Serafin LR Reducing Medication Errors by Improving Compliance with Admission Medication Reconciliation , Patient Safety: 2025

Xu K A Hospitalist Led Initiative to Improve Medication Reconciliation on Admission , J Hosp Med, 19(S1): 2024,246

Xu K, McGreevey III JD, Betesh J Propagation of an Insidious Error through an EHR Documentation Shortcut , J Hosp Med, 18(S1): 2023,352

McCrea N, Xu K, McGreevey III JD Preparing for Electronic Provider Documentation: A Survey of Physician Preferences about Dictation and Speech Recognition Capabilities at an Academic Medical Center , J Hosp Med, 9(S2): 2014

Baillie CA, Goren EN, Jacob J, Patel N, Umscheid CA, Xu KT ITL: Physician Reviews of HM-Relevant Research , The Hospitalist: 2013

Xu K, Bankova L A Rare Case of Persistent Otitis Media and Epiglottitis , J Gen Intern Med, 25(S3): 2010,484

Xu K Rapid and Massive Thrombosis following Initiation of Warfarin in a Hypercoagulable Patient , J Hosp Med, 5(S1): 2010,196

Xu K Uncontrolled Diabetes after Discontinuation of Methotrexate , J Hosp Med, 5(S1): 2010,196