The patients on the seventh floor were among the sickest in the hospital, Pou said.
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He sees it as the temporary home of the sickest, most fragile people in the country.
The researchers said a test based on the chemicals would help doctors prioritise the sickest children.
Many of the sickest people have ended up on Skid Rows, like the one where Nathaniel lives.
For kidneys it has always been the sickest and those who have waited in line the longest.
They start with triage to see who are the sickest people that they need to be seen first.
Non-emergency patients would be referred back to their GP enabling staff to "prioritise the sickest patients", she added.
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These hospitals have low mortality rates because they keep their sickest patients alive rather than letting them die.
The sickest patients became much more expensive because they put off care and prevention until it was too late.
Firms are today allowed to pick the safest patients and reject the sickest.
Hospitals are supposed to take care of the sickest members of our society and uphold the highest standards of patient care.
Down the hall are some of the sickest patients in the 16-hospital system, people recovering from liver, small-bowel and pancreas transplants.
This would create special competition in the private market focused on serving the sickest most in need of first rate health care.
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What really made the data look better was eliminating the sickest patients.
They are making progress against the odds in the sickest suicidal patients.
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The panel had other ideas: It voted 11 to 3 that the drug should be allowed on the market for the sickest patients.
But 79% of patients switched off of Geodon, so for the sickest patients, physicians may want to turn to the more powerful drugs.
Such a vision necessarily requires sharply reducing health care for the sickest, who unequally consume far more in health care than everyone else.
Analysts are expecting a close vote because, although Iressa has disappointed, it does seem to help some of the sickest lung cancer patients.
Some of the sickest patients may have to receive care at a friend or relative's house until the danger at their own home subsides.
This means the same scanning system can be used to find out more about the brains of the sickest and smallest newborn babies, he says.
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Moreover, researchers agree that, at least in the sickest patients, the results will compel them to use high doses of the most powerful drugs available.
Its solution is a single national waiting list that would simply give the highest priority for liver transplants to the sickest patients, wherever they live.
That's because people who pay for Cobra are usually the sickest.
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Pfizer also got a big boost from a backfiring Bristol study that showed high-dose Lipitor was better than Pravachol in some of the sickest heart patients.
El-Masri said it provides some evidence that Lipitor's top dose may have early benefits in the sickest patients--those who've just had heart attacks--that Zocor may lack.
Indeed, as evidenced once again by the fact that private equity groups are often buying the sickest of companies, big payouts are hardly a sure thing.
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The same lack of self-doubt that makes Mr Dunlap so successful in the sickest firms would make such a man disastrous in most of the rest.
This study, which was led by Paul Richardson at the Dana-Farber Institute, tested only the sickest patients suffering from a relatively rare cancer called multiple myeloma.
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