No need to wait in a hospital Emergency Room, which saves the patient time.
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In such cases, the pig liver is used as a bridge to transplantation, buying the patient time until a human liver can be found.
Dr Palle Palmer, from Karolinska University Hospital, said the treatment would buy the patient some time and allow her body to recover.
Surveillance means following the patient over time and offering treatment if warranted.
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By 2005 it is planned to have a maximum out-patient waiting time of three months, and a maximum waiting time for surgery of six months for all procedures.
The reward is healthier patients who spend less time at healthcare providers and a physician who spends more time in patient care and less time coding billing forms.
With such a link, doctors in the U.S. can monitor the condition of a patient in real time and offer advice just as if that patient was in a telemetry-equipped bed in an intensive care unit across the hall.
"Nurses spend a third of their time in patient care and two-thirds of their time hunting, documenting and clarifying, " says Kenagy, who has studied hospitals in Massachusetts and Pittsburgh as part of an experiment to bring industrial-style management principles to health care.
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Doctors responded to information given by the patient at the time, it added.
If the patient's time -- the process of your death -- were slowed down, doctors would have more time to fix you.
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As providers do more of their visits via secure messaging, however, systems will need to think about new models for compensating providers that acknowledge writing a thoughtful message to a patient does take time and needs to be balanced with other work.
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"Receiving the drug itself is a major investment of a patient's time, so if you live 8 km from the nearest clinic and have to go there once a month and you don't have a ready means of transport it's a huge investment of your own time, " he told the BBC.
Radial units allow nurses to visually supervise patients and spend more time on patient care and communication.
From arriving at the unit to going home, the total time a patient is in hospital is around two-and-a-half hours.
Every time a patient goes to see a doctor at her office or in the hospital that doctor gets paid.
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For example, AirStrip offers virtual real time remote patient heart monitoring technology to a broad array of acute patient clinical settings.
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The trust has a clearly established culture of openness and transparency, and we encourage all staff to raise issues of patient safety at any time.
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Nurse Harpur repeatedly has to interrupt her work to reset an intravenous pump that malfunctions every time the patient, in for complications from a kidney transplant, flexes her arm.
She said doctors may need to spend more time investigating patient reports of FHS so they can put both the child's and the parent's minds at rest.
It automatically alerts the patient when it is time to take their medication and informs them whether they need to take their pills with food or water.
The director of nutrition at King's, Rick Wilson, says this simple screening check should be carried out every time a patient goes to see a GP - particularly for older people.
The Audit Scotland report - which covered the period when Lothian waiting lists were being manipulated, between April and December 2011 - said there was "widespread use across Scotland" of the social unavailability patient code during that time.
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" "It's very attractive from a biologic and a financial perspective, because the costs of administering chemotherapy intravenously are quite high, when you figure in the all the personnel required to inject and monitor the IV every time a patient has to come in for a treatment.
In health, we will set out tomorrow a new guarantee of treatment within a set time which starts from the moment a patient is referred by their GP - not the time that they get onto the queue for their operation.
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"We didn't rush anything, we were patient and we took our time, " explained Newman.
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