Smaller hospitals appeared to have had more success in changing policies, most likely because their size led to better communication among management, staff, and patients, suggested the authors.

研究人员说，小医院之所以比大医院更成功的改变了政策，主要是因为医院的规模使得管理人员，医护人员和病人可以更好的交流沟通。

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That's significant, because most tumor models used in the lab do not metastasize. In real life, however, it's these metastases that kill the vast majority of cancer patients.

非常重要的是，因为在实验室的大部分肿瘤模型都不会转移，然而在现实生活中正是转移夺获了大部分肿瘤患者的生命。

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A diagnosis of migrainous infarction is seldom made because, in most stroke patients, other causes for the ischemic event are discovered.

临床上很少对偏头痛性梗死进行诊断，因为在大多数卒中患者中，发现的是引起缺血事件的其他原因。

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Drug mix-ups are even harder to track down, particularly because they are most dangerous in patients who are already very sick.

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Because most patients assume that the next person in the chain of care has all the information about them that the previous had one and of course that is not the case under the status quo.

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Benefits of the procedure wear off in most diabetes patients within three to five years, largely because the donor islets can become damaged during transplantation.

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