Sentences with phrase «numbers of patients dying»

Unfortunately, a number of patients died from the infections instead of their cancer; just how many is hard to say since medical studies in the 1800s were not methodical and often consisted of case reports.

Around the world bacteria are developing new strategies that render them resistant to antibiotics, resulting in an increasing number of patients dying from untreatable infections.

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The Commission's report describes the current legal status of assisted dying as «inadequate and incoherent» and recommends that assisted dying be legalised for terminally ill adults alongside a number of important safeguards to protect vulnerable people, and the condition that «the patient must take the final action that will end their own life».

And although there was only a small uptick in the maternal mortality at the hospital during that time (roughly 4 percent instead of 1 percent) the drop in the number of pregnant patients led caregivers to wonder if women were attempting home births and perhaps dying doing so, she says.

Now a study finds that a patient's risk of dying goes up along with the number of work shifts that a hospital is understaffed in nurses.

By combining two or more of these outcomes to create a single category, you can say it helped «A and B» even if it only helped A and not B. For example, although there was no statistically significant effect from tPA in the NINDS trial on the number of patients who died, there was a small decrease in disability for those who survived.

Healthy individuals» lungs contain very few goblet cells, but patients who die from asthma — an estimated 5,000 people annually — have significantly higher numbers of these cells.

Currently, an estimated number of 700,000 patients die from infections with these strains every year — and this death toll might rise.

Patients were more likely to die in psychiatric hospital if their primary disease was dementia, and they had resided in a region that provided fewer home visits for psychiatric nursing care or had available a larger number of psychiatric hospital beds per capita.

Yet, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, 106,000 patients died in hospitals, in 1994, from «legally - prescribed», carefully - supervised medications and that number hasn't changed for 30 years.

A large number of worms dying at once can cause the death of the patient.

In order to ensure that a certain number of colonies are administered to the patient, the colonies in the product should neither proliferate nor die.

With the entire world watching the recent Fukushima events and the rising of radiation levels, reported mutations and increasing numbers of cancer patients (Kudo himself died of cancer) his oeuvre can be regarded as a valid political statement of contemporary culture on a global scale.

Non-profit advocacy groups say that while hospitals are typically safe places for patients, there have been a number of incidents in New England in which patients have been seriously injured or died as a result of serious falls (mostly from beds) and burns due to exposure to flammable material.

The number has been quoted in the Journal of Patient Safety, which reports that the number of people that die from what it calls preventable adverse errors (PAEs) represents a sixth of the national annual death count.

The report must state the number of end - of - life patients who received palliative care, the number of terminal palliative sedations administered, the number of requests for medical aid in dying, the number of times such aid was administered and the number of times such requests were refused, including the reasons for the refusals.

Over the last 15 years the presence of MRSA in hospitals has increased causing a rise in resistant strains and an increase in the number of patients that have died or have been left permanently injured.

According to a special research paper on the prevalence of cancer in India which was printed in Lancet Oncology journal, by 2035, these numbers may increase substantially and 17 lakh fresh patients may be diagnosed with cancer, with about 12 lakh people dying from it every year.