Patients admitted to a separate cardiothoracic intensive care unit were not included in this study.
In our institution, patients above this age are admitted to a separate and dedicated assessment area.
Cardiac patients were admitted to other separate specialised ICUs (cardiac ICUs) and were not included in the standard ICU capacity.
Finally, it should be noted that neither maternity hospital NCU accepted inborn neonates back into the nursery after they were discharged; if inborn neonates required treatment for jaundice after discharge from the hospital, they had to be admitted to a separate hospital as an outborn admission.
Health bosses have written to GPs in Torbay after five teenagers were admitted to hospital in separate incidents involving legal highs.
While the case is still in the courts, the party's ex-treasurer has admitted to keeping a separate set of books documenting cash kickbacks paid to cabinet members by construction companies.
The patients had been admitted to 13 different, physically separated departments in the hospital (3 different hospital buildings), and 11 of the 48 were newborns.
Her daughter has been admitted to hospital on 11 separate occasion in the past nine months with chest infections.
Now it has also admitted to delays on a separate construction project, meaning it will not receive revenues or profits until 2013, rather than this year.
None of the patients admitted during the study period had been previously admitted to ICU in a separate hospital episode.
