It found dementia patients in hospital were more likely to face longer stays, be readmitted and die there.
Vecna is working on other potential applications for the robot technology - including helping move heavy patients in hospital.
Doctors have an incentive to see as many patients as quickly as possible, overprescribe drugs and keep patients in hospital.
The doctors and nurses dancing around sick patients in hospital beds, whom Boyle recruited for this presentation, certainly deserve recognition for their hard work and devotion.
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The CQC says the Trust must ensure clinical staff are assessed and trained to implement National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on the care of acutely ill patients in hospital by July 2010.
"Sadly Age Cymru believe this case is not a one-off as too often we hear reports from older people and their families across Wales of patients in hospital receiving poor standards of care, " she said.
Some public hospital doctors are allowed to treat private patients in the hospital.
And these infectious patients spread resistant bacteria to other patients in a hospital setting.
For patients staying in hospital there should be charges for food and the "hotel" elements of their stay.
He said that at noon on Wednesday, 14 patients in the hospital casualty department were on trolleys in corridors.
In the past, studies relating mental depression to depression of the immune system have usually been performed on patients stuck in hospital.
And that doesn't include pharmacy markups, salaries for doctors and nurses, and the cost of infusing the drugs into patients in the hospital.
Nearly 80 percent of the pediatric patients in this hospital had to be sedated in order to deal with the scary MRI machine.
According to a recent study by researchers at Auburn University in Alabama, patients in the hospital may get the wrong drug 20% of the time.
Mr Baber said there were 10 patients in the hospital earlier.
God knows what the rest of the world made of patients singing in hospital beds, but we knew exactly what he meant -- and they could work it out.
"The lesson learned last time is, don't have lot of patients in your hospital unless it is absolutely necessary, and don't have too many staff, " said Bob Lynch, the hospital's CEO.
Richard Blumenthal, who visited several patients in the hospital.
Freeman then was a breast cancer surgeon in Harlem, New York, trying to figure out why patients in his hospital had a five-year survival rate of 39% when it should have been closer to 85%.
Mark Mellow of the Baptist Medical Centre in Oklahoma City uses such faecal transplants to treat infections of Clostridium difficile, a bug that causes severe diarrhoea and other symptoms, particularly among patients already in hospital.
There were 17 patients in the hospital.
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In some cases patients were still in hospital because they were waiting for a place to become available at a home of their choice.
However, the report did praise the fact that patients were now kept in hospital for a shorter time - a move which could result in more patients being treated.
An estimated one in four patients admitted to a hospital in America will suffer some form of unintended harm, and more than 500 people die from hospital mishaps every day.
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Pre-operative statin therapy can reduce the chance of post-operative atrial fibrillation and shortens the stay on the intensive care unit (ICU) and in the hospital in patients who undergo cardiac surgery, according to a new systematic review by Cochrane researchers.
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In a Managed Care world, patients were not in the hospital long enough for students and interns to get a comprehensive view of a particular disease or condition.
Patients are in the hospital for only two days and recover in two weeks.
Across the country, two thirds of patients cared for in hospital wards are over the age of 65.
Too many patients feel insecure in hospital because of their fear of infection.
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