Sentence examples for prolonged admission from inspiring English sources
Persistent ventilator-dependent respiratory failure is a major cause of death and prolonged admission to the intensive care unit [1].
Patients requiring prolonged admission to the ICU consume significant health-care resources and have a high rate of in-hospital death.
Several studies on anemia in hip fracture patients reported on increased morbidity, prolonged admission, higher readmission rate and increased mortality rate [ 6- 8].
However four people were admitted to hospital, one particularly prolonged admission (81 days) was for terminal care for cancer, one because she had some falls (on a background of myeloma), one with an infected wound and one unknown cause.
As an added benefit this would reduce the potential for nosocomial transmission; Gelmanova et al. [ 12] showed prolonged admission in TB hospitals to be an important risk factor in acquiring MDR-TB.
Provent score at day 21 has been proven effective as a prognostic index of mortality one year after prolonged admission in ICU in patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation (over 20 days).
Both HIV-1 uninfected and infected patients had prolonged admissions (9.5 days) compared to the typical duration of admission at GFJH (4 days) [25].
Such innovative forms of psychiatry liaison services could reduce the cost by early diagnoses and formulating care plans for people with dementia, thus avoiding prolonged admissions and unnecessary readmissions to hospital.
Over half were transferred from their home communities to a tertiary care facility for relatively prolonged admissions, although in most children the length of stay was 9 days or less.
First, based on the case-logs kept in each facility's maternity unit all cases diagnosed with obstetric complications, prolonged admissions, or fatal outcomes within the preceding three months are identified.
This critical difference suggests prolonging admission to hospital would not improve mortality outcomes in a New York state population.
