Sentence examples for escalating patients from inspiring English sources

About 7.6% of all escalating patients were residing in a deprived neighbourhood, and approximately 27.6% were living in an area of the highest level of urbanisation (level 1) (table 2).

They can do that by escalating patient concerns through the system, and by keeping publishable records to document soaring costs and deterioration of care within the new system.

This improved safety has notably occurred despite an ageing population and escalating patient disease burden in the US.

Clinical environments are increasingly characterised by escalating patient acuity; advancing technology and treatment modalities; and complex requirements in managing current and emerging health priorities [ 1- 3].

Although escalating patient acuity places a large strain on ED resources, the most important cause of ED overcrowding is insufficient inpatient capacity for ED patients who require hospital admission [ 8, 22, 23].

But this is built on the premise that we are using the information about these patients in this way to improve their care and make them more safe so that particularly we're escalating deteriorating patients much earlier and we can therefore react to that," he said.

In this ongoing phase I study panitumumab was given at a dosage of 6 mg/kg by intravenous infusion every 2 weeks, and AMG706 was given continuously from day 3 of cycle 1 in escalating doses; patients also received either FOLFOX or FOLFIRI based on prior systemic therapy.

The proportion of patients escalating dose was compared between patients receiving etanercept and infliximab using a chi-square test or Fisher's Exact Test (for cell sizes less than five).

For continuing patients, proportions of patients escalating from the FDA-recommended starting dose or higher ranged from 1.1 to 2.9% for etanercept and 7.0 to 28.3% for adalimumab.

For new patients, proportions of patients escalating from the FDA-recommended starting dose or higher ranged from 0.4 to 1.2% for etanercept and 8.3 to 14.1% for adalimumab.

Irinotecan dosing started at 50 mg m−2 and was escalated in patients by 25 mg m−2 increments up to a maximum dose of 150 mg m−2.