Sentence examples for prolong length from inspiring English sources

Holmås et al. (2010) investigated the effect of fining owners of long-term care institutions who prolong length of stay at hospitals in Norway.

This is an important consideration, as cesarean section will increase medical costs, prolong length of stay in hospital, and can add additional complications due to operation syndrome.

Cardiac surgery is frequently complicated by acute lung injury (ALI) which, together with postoperative atelectasis, may prolong length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) [ 1].

Complications occurred in 222 (21.9%) and included medical (n = 106), wound (n = 57) and orthopaedic (n = 40) complications; 19 patients had a minor complication that did not require significant intervention or substantially prolong length of stay.

Impaired haemodynamic- and HRV responses in the postoperative period may contribute to OH and OI during mobilization which have been demonstrated to prolong length of hospital stay after prostatectomy [ 8].

Primary endpoint was prolonged length of stay (pLOS) in the ICU, defined as more than three days of stay there.

The goal of this prospective study was to evaluate ICG-PDR, copeptin, MR-proANP and pro-ADM to predict prolonged length of stay (pLOS) in the ICU.

But although patients with moderate to severe ARDS had high mortality, had prolonged length of stay and were particularly exposed to central venous catheters (CVC), there were no data reporting intravascular catheter-related infections (ICRI).

This study presents a model for predicting a prolonged length of stay for ICU patients.

But these models might be inaccurate when apply to subpopulation and might not predict prolonged length of stay.

These injuries may lead to additional healthcare costs, prolonged length of stay and psychological distress for the patients.