Sentences with phrase «count hospitalized patients»

«At the moment, dengue surveillance systems typically only count hospitalized patients but our findings confirm that less serious cases represent an equally important source of virus infection.

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In a mid-stage trial, 16 of 37 lung cancer patients given a placebo ahead of standard chemo wound up hospitalized with severely low white blood cell counts.

In late August, the count had climbed drastically — triggering a decision to hospitalize the patient and suspend the trial.

One in three patients hospitalized for medical problems experienced a drop in their red blood cell count due to the hospitalization — a concept called hospital - acquired anemia, new research showed.

I can't even begin to count the number of hospitalized patients that do so well on GI Low Fat in our practice as it is such a sensitive yet palatable diet.

SIRS criteria are present in many hospitalized patients, including those who never develop infection and never incur adverse outcomes (poor discriminant validity).25 In addition, 1 in 8 patients admitted to critical care units in Australia and New Zealand with infection and new organ failure did not have the requisite minimum of 2 SIRS criteria to fulfill the definition of sepsis (poor concurrent validity) yet had protracted courses with significant morbidity and mortality.26 Discriminant validity and convergent validity constitute the 2 domains of construct validity; the SIRS criteria thus perform poorly on both counts.