Sentences with phrase «not hospitalize patients»

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The authors asked hospitalized patients to rate conditions — which they were not then experiencing — on a sliding scale, ranging from «worse than death, neither better nor worse than death, a little better than death, somewhat better than death, or much better than death.»

Some pediatricians don't go to the hospital anymore, allowing specialty pediatricians or hospitalists to care for their hospitalized patients, which allows them to spend more time in the office.

Also, there is no reporting of medical errors in the U.S., so we really don't have the data to draw conclusions, but the Institute of Medicine in 2000 reported that «at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors,» meaning that «deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).»

Geoff Oxnard, an assistant professor of medicine at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston and one of Paweletz's collaborators, remarks that «I had a hospitalized patient last week, she's sick with metastatic lung cancer, and she's exactly the kind of patient who might have an [epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR)-RSB- mutation, but I simply didn't have enough tissue to ask those questions yet.»

Among the patients, 52 percent (n = 34) had attempted suicide and 80 percent (n = 53) had been hospitalized for psychiatric reasons.

Even when the condition of patients is life - threatening, they are not defined under the Treatment of Mental Patients Law of 1991 as mentally ill and can not be hospitalized involuntarily, even if they refuse to willingly enter an inpatient program in order to receive trpatients is life - threatening, they are not defined under the Treatment of Mental Patients Law of 1991 as mentally ill and can not be hospitalized involuntarily, even if they refuse to willingly enter an inpatient program in order to receive trPatients Law of 1991 as mentally ill and can not be hospitalized involuntarily, even if they refuse to willingly enter an inpatient program in order to receive treatment.

In a study that included readmission information from nearly 350 hospitals, readmissions the first 30 days after surgery were associated with new postdischarge complications related to the surgical procedure and not a worsening of any medical conditions the patient already had while hospitalized for surgery, according to a study in the February 3 issue of JAMA.

Approximately half of patients hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries are anemic, according to recent studies, but anemia's effects on the recovery of these patients is not clear.

Contrary to popular practice, a measure of the heart's pumping function known as «left ventricular ejection fraction» is not associated with the long - term outcomes of hospitalized heart failure patients, a UCLA - led study of Medicare patients has found.

The sample comprised data from 38,475 inpatient stays for people 18 or older hospitalized for 7 to 30 days; and noted whether patients did or did not receive a palliative care consult.

Hospitalized patients are routinely hooked up to urinary catheters that enable doctors and nurses to measure urine flow (not incidentally, the catheters also liberate health - care workers from having to take patients to the bathroom).

A new study reports that peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) do not reduce the risk of central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in hospitalized patients.

In addition, hospital visits where chemotherapy was administered were more expensive, but the duration of hospital stay was not significantly longer compared with patients who did not receive chemotherapy while hospitalized.

The study found that overall, senior patients who had been hospitalized for a trauma injury were not able to return to all of the daily tasks they had been doing before.

Hospitalized patients often are prescribed PPIs in order to prevent a stomach ulcer or other complications, and then they don't come off the medication.

Only half of all patients hospitalized for heart disease have high cholesterol, meaning the other half do not.

Under some conditions, a patient doesn't receive an invoice, like when a person is hospitalized for a workplace injury and the entire bill can be paid via a worker's compensation claim.

This system not only raises our level of security, but more importantly it allows us to access constant surveillance of our hospitalized patients from both on and off the premises.

For example, advanced ventilation design provides fresh air to different hospital zones, meaning hospitalized inpatients, pets in outpatient services and patients with contagious diseases in isolation each receive a fresh air supply that does not mix with each other or other areas of the hospital.

Visiting hospitalized patients at our Tucson, AZ pet hospital can be arranged, but is not encouraged.

Staff will be providing care to hospitalized patients, but we will not be open for appointments or emergency care.

I recheck my hospitalized patients again, perform all of the treatments, medications, walkings and feedings again, and hand feed the kitty again that will not eat on her own.

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.

For instance, for cataract or dental operations, the patient does not need to be hospitalized for 24 hours.

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.