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A reorganization committee was established for the thirty-nine wards of the three hospitals.
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As in many asylums, rehabilitation had tended to revolve around the acute admission wards from which patients were more likely to make a full recovery.
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Alternatively, she may be allocated specific wards where she is responsible for all learners who work there.
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Evaluating the scheme one year on, the programme of instruction was continuing and indeed, had been extended to other wards.
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In making such an important transition, you become aware of your progress and mentally separate the time before entering from that after wards.
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Approximately 20 households were randomly sampled from each of two wards selected from each of the three sample panchayats.
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In city wards cost of labour and land is very high as compared to suburban wards.
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However, it can be stated that little standardization in water control existed between the two urban wards and between the wards and the civic-ceremonial center.
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The suggested implication of this is that different decision-making mechanisms may have been employed when planning and constructing water-control features in the residential wards.
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The reason for the functional differences between the causeways may have to do with their paths through these urban wards.
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A new system of territorial collection, based on the new electoral wards, was suggested as an alternative.
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They were treated in a quite different way and in separate wards the forerunner to the modern pay-beds.
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Various investigations are carried out on surgical wards.
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In surgical wards you will often have to care for people who display anxiety.
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I was always in the wards, full of people and the staff, then a social worker every day seeing people.
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There they shared wards with non-addicted patients with acute hepatitis.
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In the ten worst housed wards, labour enjoyed solid success in six while it was only predominant in the other four.
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Strategies to address the increase in elderly admissions to hospital have included the development of admissions wards to which all acute admissions are received.
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The researcher made several visits to the wards and community centres when necessary to make contact.
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The community involved comprized of two wards and hence had a neat geographical location.
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Table 2 shows the characteristics of the electoral wards included in this study according to this classification, according to the level of socio-economic deprivation.
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Assessing the environmental quality of longstay wards for the confused elderly.
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Respondents are contacted through surgeries, hospital wards or clinics, and may be interviewed there.
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On hospital wards, strict control measures aimed at breaking the chain of transmission were implemented as soon as a case was suspected.
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Many wards have no routine maintenance policy for sphygmomanometers.
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Participative management style feature of high satisfaction and quality of care wards compared with low satisfaction and quality of care wards.
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As stated, old age psychiatrists are best placed to address the specific problems of elderly patients on general medical wards.
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Posters and flyers with invitations and information about the study were also given at seven different psychiatric wards, but few respondents were recruited this way.
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The establishment was comparable to that of the elderly care wards that shared the same hospital site, a satellite of a large acute trust.
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Were midwives to examine all babies on normal wards, savings would increase to approximately £4.30 per baby born or £2.5 million nationally.
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Charges in private wards recover nearly all the actual costs.
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They were regarded as minors and wards of the crown, were forbidden to bear arms and ride horses.
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Playing an instrument was viewed as contributing towards a positive outlook on life and even a way of ' warding off ' the ageing process.
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In 1926 there were 139 wards, 104 males and 35 females.
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Of these, three wards were listed as 'insane', and only four of the total were girls.
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Each panchayat contains several wards which correspond closely to villages.
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A questionnaire was distributed to all wards 3 weeks after the party in order to rule out further cases.
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Only this standard requires surrogates to acknowledge their ward's individuality as well their humanity.
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Thus, knowledge and consideration of the life narratives that situate wards' attitudes and views are crucial to respectful treatment of this population of research subjects.
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Moreover, analysis of qualitative data from a pilot project38 revealed low awareness of the concept of informed consent among nursing employees in elderly wards.
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What are the risks of creating wards for these people ?
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The previous study completed preabortion interviews on the public wards very near to the time of the operation.
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The studies covered all three council levels : the district headquarters, the wards and the village levels.
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People coming to hospital wards and saying, look, we have private ambulances.
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The ecological estimates for the entire set of 56 parishes and 17 wards contain systematic results for the main coefficients.
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All postoperative care was given in the remaining wards.
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Schools were established, wards were rearranged, and educational methods were suggested.
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Complications of enteric fever encountered in medical wards.
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Both the wards and their estates had been looked after, and upon release, many emerged in sound financial health.
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The reform did not affect the grouping of wards into townships, but the imposition of sectors did alter the arrangement of townships within cantons.
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Almost every respondent believed that dancing warded off the ailments of old age, especially the stiffening of the body and the deterioration of the mind.
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There are 24 wards and hence 24 generation nodes.
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From this point on, wards were cared for in a less physical sense, but as we will see, they were still closely monitored.
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Developmentally, four wards were said to do consistently better than the rest, owing to their effectiveness of their [representatives].
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The same grouping procedure was applied to the wards according to their social fragmentation scores.
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Consequently, parent substitutes may not easily develop genuine parental affection for their wards.
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Patients at the hospice day care center are palliative patients referred from oncological wards or general practitioners or the patients themselves initiate the contact.
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Each of the four wards in the study area served as a stratum.
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On the other hand, mortality approached 100% for the cases diagnosed in the wards.
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The clear implication is that the process is operating at very local scales within constituencies and wards.
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Within each selected sub-district, five city wards were randomly selected (a total of fifteen city wards).
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The patients were cared f or in 26 wards from eight hospitals.
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The day-care unit treats patients from all of the hospital's wards; in 1998 chemotherapy represented 58% of admissions.
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Included in this figure is also the ward's share of current costs mutual for the department or hospital but not investments or other capital costs.
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The respectable classes' anxieties about the disorderly and degraded social conditions of the inner wards ensured a receptive audience for the temperance message.
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The fifteenth, on the other hand, was paid by nearly all householders, at least in the inner-city wards from which assessments survive.
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Hospitals all over the country offered special inducements in the way of comfortable wards and appropriate treatment for the cure of opium addicts.
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The calpolli were divided into wards (no indigenous term emerges) formed of 20, 40, 80, or more households.
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At the beginning, a rough scheme of dividing the village into a few wards was usually drawn up.
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On their arrival, he and his peers were treated not as valued co-participants in nation-building, but as subordinate wards in need of state-scripted retraining.
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Seniors whose main income source is currently government transfers do not appear to have been permanent wards of the welfare state.
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Thus, surrogates must consider these as they strive to discharge their responsibilities not only to protect their wards but also to treat them with respect.
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There is contained within it an obligation to protect wards from harm.
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We also have to value the input of those who work the wards and inhabit the sickrooms.
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In part this was achieved specifically by moderate councillors in those wards being more responsive to working-class issues and needs.
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In all other wards die involvement was close, though attention was also given to the country village church.
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Using these numbers, it was decided to make nineteen male beds and thirteen female beds available in the sick wards for casuals.
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They also offered alternatives to the casual wards, including money for a night's lodging elsewhere.
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All patients remained in screened wards of the hospital to prevent infection of local anophelines.
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However, feelings about the general hospital wards were less positive and views on primary care follow-up mixed.
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Patients are often transferred to other wards to await community care provision before discharge home.
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We did not include people meeting our diagnostic criteria currently living in the local learning disability hospital or in long-stay psychiatric wards.
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A system of allocation keys was developed based on those cost components being assigned to the wards.
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The trainees then tour the wards, examining individuals suffering from the various disorders discussed in the lecture, and patients at various stages of recovery.
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The one tale is superimposed onto the other, thereby warding off recognition and exposure.
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Patients were admitted to the same hospital wards and assigned to the same team of rehabilitation professionals.
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Finally, many cities did not have systematic criteria for identifying individual houses so that placing voters within their correct precincts and wards was extremely difficult.
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The study wards were of similar design, each consisting of four six-bedded bays and containing four side rooms, and were situated on the same floor of a 10-year-oldbuilding.
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Although we cannot be sure about the reasons behind common council's vacillations in these years, it is probable that resistance in the wards to another tax grant played a part.
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The 17 in-patients determined to be suitable, who were initially referred to in-patient wards based on the severity of their symptoms, were assessed 2 weeks post admission on average.
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Students of labor and political machines have been most interested in how bosses and their minions in the wards influenced the politics of the labor movement.
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Rehabilitation may occur in a range of settings - acute, specialist stroke, orthogeriatric units or mixed wards, community hospitals, day hospitals, and outreach services in the community.
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Routine environmental cleaning on study wards was carried out using a general-purpose detergent (containing phosphate and ionic and nonionic surfactants), in line with current advice [28].
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A recent meta-analysis (22) found that stroke unit management was associated with lower rates of death and disability compared with management on general medical or neurological wards.
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The national system complements local risk management systems, allowing national data collation and dissemination of urgent alerts (for example regarding the storage of potassium chloride on wards) when necessary.
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