In the study, one on-call paediatrician was questioned in every hospital providing acute in-patient care for children.
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The problem occurs when doctors are unable to discharge patients because of problems in arranging post-hospital care.
The other two exceptions related to care -- emergency care in the hospital and being able to report crimes.
Labour's peers, Lord Warner, a former health minister, and Lord Patel of Bradford, have amendments down on the holy grail of health policy: the integration of health with social care - removing the barriers that keep people in expensive hospital beds, when they may be better looked-after in care homes.
They suspect this could be due to delays in patients accessing timely hospital care - something which may also apply to the UK to some extent.
Librarian Ms Morrisroe-Clutton has been in intensive care at Wrexham Maelor Hospital for two weeks, and her 12-week-old son Oliver has been looked after by close family.
An even bolder option would be to encourage private providers like the Circle health-care group, which took over the failing Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridge this year, or try to attract outsiders like Helios, a German company which specialises in improving badly managed health-care facilities, to compete for control of the weaker English hospital trusts.
Mr Davies had been an in-patient at the mental health unit in West Wales General Hospital and also under the care of the local Community Mental Health Team since October 2002.
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He found that between January of 2002 and June of 2008 some nine hundred people in the two buildings accounted for more than four thousand hospital visits and about two hundred million dollars in health-care bills.
Luke's, in Cedar Rapids, which is known for its top-flight cardiac care, is the fourth most profitable hospital in the country with a 36% margin.
Petersburg, Fla, but my daughter would not, contracting a hospital-born infection in the neonatal intensive care unit where she died June 1 of that same year.
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This began in 1993 when the city government sold 16 acres of land to a private health-care company for a hospital to serve a poor area in the west of Mexico City.
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Karen Morrisroe-Clutton, 32, is in intensive care and three-year-old Abigail Hennessey, is in hospital.
The largest trust fund - which primarily covers health needs and hospital care - is on a path to exhaust its reserves in 2024.
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Study leader Dr Martin Wildman, consultant in respiratory medicine at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, said in an averagely-sized hospital the decision to admit a patient with COPD to intensive care probably happens once a week - or two to three times a week in winter.
There has been a lot of research about the optimal duration in a health-care setting, such as a hospital.
Five days later, the young man visited his friend in the intensive-care unit of Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital.
Sarabjit Singh is in the intensive care unit of the state-run Jinnah Hospital.
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Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust currently provides hospital care from three sites in east Berkshire - Wexham Park in Slough, St Mark's in Maidenhead and Heatherwood in Ascot.
In red-tape-bound Delhi, the private share of hospital care has shot up to 40% since investment restrictions were lifted in 1986.
However, fighting the social service tides that Washington brings in could transfer healthcare costs towards tax-exempt charity care within hospital emergency rooms.
Acute care for mental health in-patients at Downe Hospital and the Ulster Hospital could be transferred as part of an overhaul of services at the facilities.
One of them, in India, was Aravind Eye Care, a for-profit hospital that treats the poor for little or no charge, subsidizing the care with fees it charges well-off patients. (See a Forbes article on Aravind here.) Moraes Neto co-authored a documentary film, Setor Dois e Meio (The Second-and-a-half Sector) about the journey that will be released later this year.
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In 2001, though, a critical-care specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital named Peter Pronovost decided to give it a try.
Its two high street stores have helped fund work which includes support for elderly people living in poverty, emergency grants, welfare rights advice and a hospital after-care service.
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"It's phenomenal the change we've seen in the past week, " said Andy Copeland, whose 24-year-old daughter Aimee was on a ventilator in intensive care at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Georgia.
Changes being planned by Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board would mean babies from north Wales have to go to a hospital in the north-west of England if they need specialist intensive care.
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MRSA, for instance, is blamed partly on waiting-time targets which put pressure on hospitals to squeeze in as many patients as possible rather than take care to ensure that hospital-acquired infections do not spread.
There are also a whole series of medical strategies in the bill that provide for wrap-around care once a patient leaves a hospital, so a home health team, where somebody may need some follow-up.
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