Sales rose meteorically after some doctors started using it also in outpatient clinics in non-hospitalized patients.
The clinic encountered similar troubles with some of the doctors who saw its hospitalized patients.
One in 20 hospitalized patients will die because of misdiagnosis, studies cited in the book show.
Eleven of those 22 hospitalized patients had pneumonia and eight patients were treated in an intensive care unit.
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The drug is currently being tested following open-heart surgery and in a giant study to test its safety in hospitalized patients.
Every morning, hospitalized patients weigh themselves in front of a nurse, record the result and get quizzed on what they'd do at home.
Except for hospitalized patients, others with flu-like symptoms are not being tested to confirm they have swine flu, since "virtually all of the influenza that's circulating right now in the United States is the 2009 H1N1 strain, " Schuchat said.
Beyond hospitalized patients, part of coping is awareness about how to take care of the psyche turning off scary TV coverage and reading a book, going out for a quiet dinner, anything to temporarily cut the stress, says Dass-Brailsford, the disaster specialist.
Up to half of hospitalized patients with MRSA die with it, although it is hard to parse out how many of the deaths are due to the infection and how many are due to the underlying illnesses that put them in the hospital in the first place.
Researchers took a single urine sample from hospitalized heart patients, found normal BPA trace amounts, and concluded BPA did it.
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But doctors often give hospitalized elderly patients intravenous fluids to prevent dehydration, which can lead to kidney problems, Siegel said.
But, Nul said, the cost of this intervention is lower than the cost of patients being hospitalized, a significant point because much of the cost associated with congestive heart failure stems from patients needing to be hospitalized after they suffer setbacks.
Also Tuesday, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published data on 30 patients hospitalized in California with 2009 H1N1.
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All patients hospitalized with flu should get the antivirals, she said, even before the strain they have is confirmed by a laboratory test.
The article presents a study that compares different ways of using water pills, or diuretics, for the treatment of patients hospitalized with heart failure.
Alcohol plays a role in 40 percent of car fatal crashes, and half of the patients hospitalized for trauma are intoxicated at the time of injury.
It is often vastly cheaper to give a patient a new prescription or to implant a device than it is to have patients hospitalized because their condition was under-treated.
The study, which examined insurance records for more than 2, 500 diabetics between February 2005 and December 2008, found that patients hospitalized with pancreatitis were twice as likely to be taking one of these drugs, as opposed to a control group of Type 2 diabetics who did not have pancreatitis.
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In the 4, 162-person PROVEIT study, Harvard cardiologists found that patients hospitalized for heart attacks or unstable angina who took a 80-milligram dose of Lipitor were 16% less likely to suffer heart attacks or other cardiovascular "events" over two years than those who took a lower dose of Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) Pravachol.
In one study, only two of 767 patients on Xolair were hospitalized, compared to 18 hospitalizations for 638 asthma patients on standard therapy.
Overall, 91 percent of patients were hospitalized, 18 required dialysis, two had kidney transplants, and four died.
Patients without pre-existing disease on high potency statins were 34% more likely to be hospitalized with acute kidney injury than patients on other statin regimens.
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The surgeon said it is common for patients to remain hospitalized four or five days for observation.
In many cases, patients are not hospitalized when undergoing the procedure.
The immune system activator interleukin-2 helps 15% of advanced melanoma cases and cures a few, but it produces such devastating side effects that patients must be hospitalized.
As of Tuesday, 18 of the 22 patients who had been hospitalized had recovered, it said.
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Back in the 1970s and '80s, patients in clinical trials were generally hospitalized with severe depression.
And many are actively refocusing their businesses to care for patients who not long ago would still have been hospitalized.
Asking patients, residents, and their families whether they want to be hospitalized.
Patients on DBT had half the rate of attempted suicides over the next two years and were hospitalized less often for suicidal thoughts, according to the results in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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