Sentences with phrase «patients in the hospital because»

But over the last 15 or 20 years, it has increasingly become a problem for patients in the hospital because it's very good at developing resistance to multiple antibiotics.

Not exact matches

Carmine Simone, chief of surgery at Toronto East General Hospital, had six procedures cancelled over a three - month period in 2013 because the patients had failed to stop taking their medication beforehand.

Because this scenario showcases a slew of problems that are endemic to our modern healthcare system — from the utter lack of bacterial control in clinical settings and the associated infections that result... to a process that shuttles vulnerable patients in and out of emergency rooms for piecemeal diagnosis and treatment... to overcrowded, overburdened hospitals that still mindlessly cling to patient - management processes that haven't worked for decades.

«A» couldn't return to Rhiannon right away because they woke up in a hospital patient's body.

Because Lee's team was crunching so much of the hospital's data, they could identify a common factor in the lagging group of patients: They were all operated on later in the afternoon.

But if he had the charge of a hospital, or lived in a city where the pestilence was raging, if he would be studying fermentation, the circulation of the blood, blisters, and the like, and such like excellent points, when he should be visiting his patients, and saving men's lives; if he should even turn them away, and let them perish, and tell them that he has not time to give them advice, because he must follow his own studies, I would consider that man as a most preposterous student, who preferred the remote means before the end itself of his studies: indeed, I would think him but a civil kind of murderer.

Two million patients pick up infections in American hospitals, most because someone didn't follow basic antiseptic precautions.

also scattered in the google reviews: a terrible story about a baby who died due to their negligence, the revelation that when they have a disaster transfer, they don't take them to the hospital down the road as they tell patients, and a mom who was rejected as a client because she didn't have time for their full indoctrination procedure because she traveled for her work and would need to have some appointments with another care provider in another state.

We have an unfortunate record for ICU admissions this year, but the woo in our community is excited because our c - section rate is down 3 % (nothing intentional to lower that, just part of patient variation and an inclusion of home births as vaginal births in our community so the c - section rate now is a community stat instead of a hospital stat.

Besides making them promise to eat healthy and understand that she may not go to the hospital with them if they require a transfer, she also states that she doesn't have malpractice insurance, as the cost of it would be transferred onto her patients (because it only costs $ 3600 pre paid for her to tell you to trust birth for 9 months and then come over and knit in the corner when you go to labor.

It's possible you won't get to see the doctor because he's busy with patients, says Bill Bush, MD, pediatrician - in - chief at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI.

Of course the open beds thing would only matter if we were in a situation where hospitals regularly have to turn away patients because they are all filled up.

Palos Community Hospital officials have maintained that the center is needed in the community because it would provide continuing care to patients who need cardiac rehabilitation, physical therapy and other specialized exercise programs.

I do remember coming across a patient review of our hospital and she didn't recommend delivering there because the C - Section rate is was so high so there is some awareness in the community but very hard to find printed stats.

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.

The disabled child rate is payable if: · disability living allowance, personal independence payment or Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP) is payable for the child or is normally payable but has ceased because they are a patient in hospital; or · they are certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant ophthalmologist, or has ceased to be registered or certified blind within 28 weeks immediately preceding the date of claim The severely disabled child rate is payable if: · the highest rate care component of disability living allowance or the enhanced daily living component of personal independence payment or any component of armed forces independence payment is payable for them or would be payable but for suspension or abatement due to hospitalisation 3.

Elderly patients stranded in hospital because they have nowhere else to go are costing the NHS # 500,000 a day - Times (#)

She wrote: «The Mid Staffs scandal, and the problems throughout the NHS that it has exposed, have one thing in common: Lives lost in our hospitals because of an unaccountable central management and political organisation, more concerned with fixing the statistics for dispatch - box convenience than looking after patients, which has systematically stifled of the voices of those on the front line: both patients» groups concerned for loved ones, and doctors and nurses concerned for their patients.

Yes — some areas are in danger of losing primary emergency care, but in most areas of the state hospitals are beating each other over the head for patients because there are more hospital rooms than people dying to get into them.

New York City's public hospital system is offering to cover Memorial Sloan - Kettering patients who live in the city and are set to lose their health insurance because of the collapse of the nation's largest co-op, Health Republic.

Dr. Kenneth Bromberg, chief of pediatrics at Brooklyn Hospital Center (BHC), said patients in the U.S. may do better because of better fluid management in this country.

An earlier call to the hospital's PRO had indicated official discouragement of such a visit, and investigations had also revealed that workers and patients had been instructed not to speak to the press because when they did so in the past, the stories were allegedly twisted and the hospital was painted in a bad light.

It is because the NHS has been a central priority since June that we have made immediate changes to improve safety and cleanliness in every hospital - beginning the deep cleaning of our wards, making provision for MRSA screening for all patients entering hospital, and giving matrons new powers to report safety concerns direct to the Care Quality Commission.

Doctors have intervened in a right - to - life row following the suggestion that some hospital patients should be allowed to die because it costs too much to keep them alive.

«The research is novel because it looks at the impact of PSMA PET / CT on patient responses to treatment, not just on whether the PET scan results in changed management,» explains Louise Emmett, MD, of the St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

They wrote that a common practice in hospitals — a daily review of a patient's continued need for antibiotics — must become more common in primary care as well, because that is where some 85 percent of prescriptions are written.

«Patients can suffer severe negative health effects if their treatment is delayed, discontinued or performed incorrectly because hospital records are unavailable,» the authors wrote in the essay titled «Your Money or Your Patient's Life: Ransomware and Electronic Health Records.»

These invasive procedures are rare in Ebola cases, in part because, as Duchin notes, «most managing of Ebola patients has been in field hospitals in Africa where the ability to use those treatments is not high.»

The authors pointed out that the center's safety standards are actually higher than in most hospitals, because all patients are part of an approved research protocol and are closely monitored.

To address the possibility that some exacerbations might have been missed because participants either moved out of state or died without coming to a hospital, the team focused on a group of 524 patients for whom some sort of emergency room visit or hospitalization was recorded in the databases during the third year after surgery.

The therapy that focused on teaching parents to help their children eat normally again was about half as expensive as the family - dynamics approach, mostly because patients spent less time in the hospital.

They estimated that approximately one in six patients was admitted to the ICU only because of living closest to a hospital that places a high percentage of its patients in ICU beds.

One caveat to the study is that because helicopter transports brought a greater number of patients to Cleveland Clinic from surrounding rural areas during the course of the study period, it is possible that the observed trends reflect changes in the hospital's patient population.

«But the organisms that we detected as abundant in these biofilms appear to have characteristics that could be of interest because they are related to some bacteria that are opportunistic pathogens that could pose a threat, especially to immunocompromised hospital patients»

«Those of us who work in hospital intensive care units need to make sure we have the tools we need to help patients with opioid use disorders when they are at their sickest, because there doesn't appear to be any end to this epidemic in sight.»

Many patients at risk of transmission, or who need palliative care, live in the community because hospitals are full.

While adrenaline is also given to patients who suffer cardiac arrest in hospitals, Dr. Lin looked only at studies of those outside of a hospital because the cause of cardiac arrest tends to be different between the two settings.

A recent paper in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior describes an epilepsy patient who had electrodes implanted within her brain at Emory University Hospital, because neurologists wanted to understand where her seizures were coming from and plan possible surgery.

But Christine was also in the right place at Rhode Island Hospital because our Lifespan Cancer Institute has done remarkable research that has led to promising treatments for pancreatic cancer patients.

The federal government will fine more than 2,600 hospitals in the coming year, because too many Medicare patients treated at these hospitals are ending up back in the hospital within 30 days of going home.

«Because we're an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center, the only hospital in Dallas that's received this recognition from the Joint Commission and American Stroke Association, our patients have access to truly groundbreaking care.»

«This study is important because it may help to identify patients at high risk for future stroke and implement preventive measures beforehand, and not in reaction to a stroke,» said Dr. Akira Todo, who directs the Stroke Program at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y.

, how well drugs work, your doctor's attitude (in one survey doctors actually indicated that seeing heavy patients was «a waste of time»), and even procedures that hospitals will allow (some turn down heavy patients because they want to keep their success rates up).

I just talked to another patient last week who ended up in the hospital because she was so certain that she was having appendicitis or some major issue in her gut, and what had happened is she had started taking one tablespoon twice a day of resistant starch, and on the second or third day, she was curled up in a ball on the floor for hours until she went to the hospital.

It will be functional medicine light or diet functional medicine, and I don't think it will be, you know, what functional medicine could or — could be because well, I mean, frankly, if you got a massive multimillion - dollar hospital that makes a whole bunch of money, because they have cancer wards and heart disease wards and they treat diabetic patients, and you got this one department called functional medicine, that's sucking all the other departments dry — dry, I mean, it — they're a business that have to stay in.

And if you need more proof, MCTs have actually been used for years in hospitals in patients who are having malabsorption issues because they are so easily digested.By the way, I am actually cooking an egg in this photo, not just playing with my cast iron skillet.

And, of course, they have no desire to type nights through, because they go to work in the morning, teaching kids at school or treating patients in hospitals.

Example One: Misha, an elderly Russian Jewish patient, does not wish to be admitted to the local hospital in his town in Iowa because he had distressing experiences with the medical system as a child in the Former Soviet Union, some of which he experienced as directly related to being Jewish.

From Kingsland's perspective, Parent Trigger laws «will be better at destroying bad schools than creating excellent schools» and «end up decreasing student achievement» because families will be involved in school operations, which is something he thinks they aren't equipped to handle, akin to store customers and hospital patients protesting in front of shopping outlets and taking over hospital management.

Because trips to the veterinary hospital begin at home and often involve travel to the hospital via an automobile, acclimating and training the puppy to be relaxed in the car helps to ensure that a calm and relaxed patient reaches the veterinary hospital, thus making our job easier!