An unexpectedly high number of deaths (7.9 per cent) occurred once
the patient left hospital, the reasons for which are unclear.
«Our study shows once
a patient leaves the hospital their overall health outcomes are similar regardless of where they live.»
«The higher rate is important, because it means that most
patients left the hospital at a normal weight.
In autologous transplantations there are few complications once
the patient leaves the hospital, and the only risk is whether the disease will return, causing relapse.
When
patients leave the hospital, as many as 40 % of the opioid medications they're prescribed aren't used immediately, according to several studies.
Some breast cancer
patients leave the hospital after surgery with surgical drains, which help prevent fluid from building up around incisions.
Just because
a patient leaves our hospital, it doesn't mean our care ends.
• Ensured that transportation was available for
patients leaving hospital.
There can also be many other factors behind unspecified diagnosis: diagnosis may not be complete when
the patient leaves hospital, complexity and co-morbidity can be a reason some conditions are unspecified, and / or it indicates gaps in testing and documentation.
Not exact matches
With the new GOP health care bill expected to
leave 14 million fewer Americans with health insurance next year, investors fear those
hospitals could lose that many
patients, as those people may no longer be able to afford to seek care.
In some cases,
patients would
leave the
hospital with no bill at all.
Each year, about 8 million
patients are ready to
leave hospitals, but still too compromised to live independently at home.
All that information becomes available on a tablet, enabling the
patient and family to narrow their search to a handful of places without
leaving the
hospital, and to find an eventual fit more quickly.
Tranquilizing drugs play the major role, drastically reducing the need for physical restraints, rendering many
patients amenable to treatment, and often allowing them to
leave the
hospital much sooner than would otherwise be feasible.
A small number of
hospitals have introduced upfront charges for overseas
patients already but the vast majority continue to chase debts after
patients have
left the
hospital.
New research published today by the Campaign for Better
Hospital Food shows that at least 1 in every 4 hospital meals (26 %) served to patients in NHS hospitals are likely to be left uneaten and thrown in the bin, a figure higher than previously rec
Hospital Food shows that at least 1 in every 4
hospital meals (26 %) served to patients in NHS hospitals are likely to be left uneaten and thrown in the bin, a figure higher than previously rec
hospital meals (26 %) served to
patients in NHS
hospitals are likely to be
left uneaten and thrown in the bin, a figure higher than previously recognised.
The typical scenario would be that something had gone dreadfully wrong and the community midwives, after exploring their options, would finally, and receiving nothing but hostile response from the various
hospitals, would have the
patient transported to the
hospital by ambulance and then they would all bolt and just
leave the
patient in the emergency room and to the care of whoever was on emergency call.
It notes that
hospitals were not prepared to say who they had dealt with because of
patient confidentiality, while other issues of data protection meant families were
left without any information about whether their loved ones were involved in the incident.
What you have to ask yourself right now is whether you are prepared to sacrifice lives - the lives of children being raised in poverty, the lives of
patients being
left to die on trolleys in
hospital corridors, the lives of disabled people who are cut off and abandoned to their fates, the lives of the elderly
left shivering at home or shamefully neglected in profit - driven care homes.
Just as we can not keep empty prisons open so guards can have jobs even when there is no one
left to guard, neither can we subsidize
hospitals to clean rooms that never see a
patient.
As critical staff voluntarily
leave the
hospital, the administration has reduced
hospital services, like diverting ambulances and moving
patients and elective surgeries to other facilities, said Bellafiore, adding that there are currently only 18
patients at LICH.
«Anyone who has used the NHS can see what's wrong with it: too many central diktats which
leave hospitals in debt as they are forced to prioritise political targets rather than
patient care,» he said.
Garner said a
patient who was pregnant with triplets was asked to
leave the
hospital even after the judge's order was announced.
«We don't just want to
leave patients in pain,» said Dr. Paul Updike with Sisters
Hospital's addiction recovery program.
The
hospital experienced a 4 - day water shortage from 13th January to 16th of January 2017,
leaving patients to their fate in search for water for health care delivery.
Studies have found that people have an aversion to washed clothing worn by murderers, and that they don't want an AIDS
patient to occupy a
hospital bed after they've
left it — implying a belief in causality, which goes, weirdly, backward through time.
ORLANDO, Fla. — The first large study to examine cumulative radiation exposure from medical imaging after a heart attack has found that the average
patient receives the equivalent of about 725 chest X-rays before
leaving the
hospital.
This was on vivid display for Jennifer Kalish, a pediatric geneticist at the Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, in the
patient who got her hooked on Beckwith - Wiedemann 6 years ago as a medical resident: a toddler whose
left side was a shade bigger than her right.
«Once widely assumed to be a short - term, transient condition, there is now evidence that delirium and its effects can last long after
patients have
left the
hospital.
Identifying Advertising —
Hospital websites often have the appearance of an education portal,
leaving patients to assume that the information presented is informational, not persuasive.
With the instructions being transmitted over a wireless connection, the
patients didn't need to
leave the
hospital and were able to control the robot in Millán's lab at EPFL, 100 kilometers away.
Patients can wear them even after they leave the hospital, allowing doctors to understand how their patients are functioning in the rea
Patients can wear them even after they
leave the
hospital, allowing doctors to understand how their
patients are functioning in the rea
patients are functioning in the real world.
«We see
patients who we're treating for ARDS who are very sick and, who at the time, may not look like their quality of life will be great, but our study shows that their level of acuity is not a marker of whether they will experience a high quality of life once they
leave the
hospital,» said Dr. Brown.
High - volume lung transplant centers have lower transplantation costs and their
patients are less likely to be readmitted within 30 days of
leaving the
hospital following surgery, according to a new study of more than 3,000 Medicare
patients who received lung transplants.
The first
patient to receive an artificial hip installed with the help of a robot «surgeon» was due to
leave hospital last week.
One case she particularly enjoyed was helping a
hospital reduce long waiting lists, which were causing
patients to
leave, the
hospital to lose money, and the staff members to become frustrated.
Although
hospitals clean rooms daily and after a
patient leaves, some spores may still survive, Kenneley said, which is why the key to prevention is hand - washing.
After
leaving the frontline
hospital, they're loaded onto a massive C - 17 cargo plane that has been retrofitted to hold an entire intensive care unit — up to 8 critical care
patients and 27 noncritical litter
patients.
Compared to healthy people, ICU
patients had depleted populations of commensal, health - promoting microbes and higher counts of bacterial taxa with pathogenic strains —
leaving patients vulnerable to
hospital - acquired infections that may lead to sepsis, organ failure and potentially death.
«We need to focus not only on saving the
patient's life, but on ensuring the
patient will have the best possible quality of life after
leaving the
hospital.»
The committee wrote that
patients receiving the intervention spent less time on the ventilator and were more likely to be able to walk when they
left the
hospital.
The researchers say the high prevalence of PTSD after an ICU stay underscores the importance of following up with
patients after they
leave the
hospital.
«The concept for the CCRC arose from the needs of young adult ICU
patients who we saw
leaving the
hospital with functional impairments as well as a spectrum of disorders — memory, attention, depression, mood and anxiety — typically not seen in other
patients of similar age,» said Dr. Khan, lead author of the study.
However, our results showed that
hospital - acquired anemia was associated with worse clinical outcomes after
leaving the
hospital so it needs to be taken more seriously,» said senior author Dr. Ethan Halm, Director of UT Southwestern's Center for
Patient - Centered Outcomes Research and Chief of the William T. and Gay F. Solomon Division of General Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern.
According to a 2008 study, people who have POCD 3 months after they
leave the
hospital are nearly twice as likely to die within a year as are surgical
patients who report no mental setbacks.
Overall,
patients who survived to
hospital discharge
left with at most only a slight disability.
«We've known for years that how well a
patient does is directly related to the amount of tumor that the surgeon removes and the amount that's
left behind,» says Michael Birrer, who began working with Belcher when he was head of medical gynecologic oncology at Massachusetts General
Hospital.
After
leaving the
hospital,
patients are expected to return to the Penn Transplant Institute for ongoing therapy and medical care and are monitored for any signs of infection, rejection or medication side effects.
After the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, performed its first fecal microbiota transplant in 2011, a
patient who had been bed - ridden for weeks
left the
hospital 24 hours later.
«Many of our
patients at City of Hope can have surgery and
leave the
hospital in one or two or three days,» Fong said.