1.   And four patients were hospitalized after drinking Chinese kombucha tea as a remedy for cancer.

2.   According to government statistics, Kaiser patients are hospitalized for less than a third as many days annually as the average dialysis patient in this country.

3.   Four other patients were hospitalized for more minor complications but have been released, said Marilyn Riley, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health.

4.   Historically, the treatment has been to hospitalize the patient for five days or more for intravenous infusions of heparin, a blood-thinning drug.

5.   HMO executives said that this omission could create a perverse incentive for them to hospitalize patients to gain the extra payments.

6.   In four cases, patients were hospitalized.

7.   In the past, the only treatment for Pseudomonas infections has been to hospitalize patients for several weeks and start them on intravenous antibiotics.

8.   Prior to approval of the drug, the standard treatment for lung infections was to hospitalize patients and put them on intravenous antibiotics.

9.   Researchers have found that poor-quality care leads to costly complications, in part because more patients must be hospitalized.

10.   Roughly half of sepsis cases follow infections that take root while patients are hospitalized, their immune systems weakened by medical procedures.