The lawsuit, filed Friday in the United States District Court in Brooklyn, seeks an order directing Martin Luther King to readmit S. G. and refrain from illegally excluding, discharging or transferring other students.
If, after initial amnioinfusion, uterine contractions and signs of infection have been excluded, discharge is optional.
We excluded discharges of patients not living in Switzerland at the time of treatment.
We excluded those discharged for palliative care.
Therefore, we also excluded patients discharged on novel oral anticoagulants or other agents such as low molecular weight heparin or fondaparinux.
We excluded patients discharged from hospital D to one PCT, since nearly a third, coded as transfers to another NHS institution, were missing a subsequent CRH admission record.
We excluded patients discharged on the day of admission to ensure that sufficient time to collect consecutive cardiac biomarkers and perform ECG monitoring necessary for establishing the diagnosis was available.
For emergency cases, as recommended by Jones, [ 15] we excluded admissions discharged alive with a zero day length of stay, because in England such episodes of care are likely to be an artefact of the NHS drive to reduce Accident & Emergency waiting times rather than reflecting any specific clinical or epidemiological phenomenon [ 15].
Although we made a conservative estimate of ARI by excluding clear nasal discharge from clinical definitions and including only clinically verified episodes of URI and LRI, we still found a high incidence of 17.3 episodes per 100 child weeks at risk in Sisimiut.
After excluding patients discharged before 1996 and those without clear records regarding age or sex, we enrolled 29,703 case-patients in our study.
