11.   Patients typically stay in intensive care one day rather than two or three, and their hospital stays are also shortened.

12.   Physicians got test results quicker, often shortening stays.

13.   Several researchers will present the results of studies designed to determine the proper level of anti-coagulants used with the stent to shorten hospital stay.

14.   The technology has also helped shorten hospital stays, because patients can now be monitored at home.

15.   Welch, an associate professor of medicine and researcher at Dartmouth Medical School, concluded increases in home health care have not shortened hospital stays.

16.   He said officials have told him he is not technically being deported, but rather forced to shorten his stay in Colombia.

17.   Li has shortened his stay in France and postponed trips to Luxembourg and the Netherlands, officially because of his heavy workload.