She should have submitted a wage slip the day before the baby was due but was rushed into hospital and was not discharged for two weeks.
The patients were followed over time, from admission to the skilled nursing facility to discharge or, for those who were not discharged, for 1 year.
Of the 149 patients who left the hospital alive and were not discharged for palliative care, 110 (74%) were discharged without disability, 27 (18%) had neurological impairment, and in 12 (8%) the neurological status upon discharge was not recorded.
Backward logistic regression resolved in five iterations, Nagelkerke R = 0.603, Hosmer and Lemeshow X = 6.05, df = 8, p = 0.642, with 97.6% correct for those not discharged, 66.7% correct for those discharged and 90.6% correct overall.
This model was reasonably robust and when repeated by forward logistic regression yielded a model in one iteration with Nagelkerke R = 0.525, Hosmer and Lemeshow X = 2.37, df = 7, p = 0.927, 92% correct for those not discharged, 66.7% correct for those discharged and 86.8% correct overall and included a single variable, DUNDRUM-3 odds ratio = 0.698, 95% CI 0.563 – 0.866, p < 0.001.
But when I worked as a doctor on a stroke ward only a few years ago, in a busy city hospital, many of my patients would not be discharged for several months, even though they had completed their rehabilitation, as we waited for social-care packages to be implemented.
It added that it did not discharge or hold patients for financial reasons.
In a statement, the company said that the Medicare reports represented isolated incidents, that it corrected any problems that inspectors found and that it did not discharge or hold patients for financial reasons.
From the first page, I liked Tiny Walker, the typically Macalisterian main character: an ex-marine who would have been a hero in the battle of Falluja had he not been dishonorably discharged for failing to corroborate the official story of the rape of a twelve-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her and her entire family, an unfortunate instance of miscommunication with local civilians.
He had not been discharged as unfit for service; no, we whispered, "he has long been ripe for the concentration camp".
The majority of these patients had not been discharged because they did not fulfil the criteria for discharge of a rising neutrophil count.
