A new study looked at a single day of more than 1,200 intensive care units, or ICUs,in 75 countries.

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American hospitals are doing a better job of keeping elderly patients alive while they're in intensive care.

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Dr.Wunsch and colleagues studied the survival rate of 35,000 intensive care patients discharged from U.S.hospitals.

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He and other researchers found that more than half of some 14,000 patients in the study on that one day, developed infections in intensive care units.

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In addition to being very sick, patients in intensive care may be on ventilators.

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More than one million elderly are survivors of intensive care in the United States.

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But a study of elderly patients discharged from a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) shows that almost 40 percent did not survive beyond the research period of three years.

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Only the very sick are admitted to intensive care units.

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"One of the things that this study actually allows us to do, is to begin to get a sense as to how much of the burden of infection is an added burden on a patient who is already at risk of dying because of the underlying diseases that led them to be in the intensive care unit,"

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The studies found that the mistake rate in two intensive-care areas decreased when interns worked fewer hours.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

When we have shortages in one part of the country of beds or intensive-care beds we can ensure that a network of services provides them in another part of the country."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24