Sentences with phrase «patients leave the hospital»

«Our study shows once a patient leaves the hospital their overall health outcomes are similar regardless of where they live.»

An unexpectedly high number of deaths (7.9 per cent) occurred once the patient left hospital, the reasons for which are unclear.

«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 recHospital 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 rechospital 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 reaPatients can wear them even after they leave the hospital, allowing doctors to understand how their patients are functioning in the reapatients 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.