Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [adj] patient " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent paper in The Lancet observed that people aged over 70 are excluded from almost all clinical trials of cancer treatment , with the result that elderly patients ‘ receive either untested treatments , inadequate treatments , or even none at all , at the whim of their clinician . ’ |
| 2 | That question is not for the Government ; it is for the hon. Gentleman and his party to explain to his constituents why it is in the interests of the patients of Manchester to remove private patients from NHS hospitals , to deny the NHS revenue that private patients bring and to deny benefits to NHS patients in general . |
| 3 | This study is the first to show the presence of functionsl hyposplenism in alcoholic liver disease and provides further evidence of the predisposition that these patients have to infection . |
| 4 | The finding that untreated patients with severe hypocalcemia showed the highest values of total and nephrogenous urinary cAMP is in keeping with the notion that a secondary hyperparathyroidism may occur in active coeliac disease . |
| 5 | Particular emphasis will be given to the implications of the finding that some patients with visual recognition impairments resulting from brain injury can show evidence , in implicit tasks , of ‘ covert ’ recognition of stimuli they fail to recognise explicitly . |
| 6 | The exaggerated anorectal smooth muscle responses to rectal distension and the attenuated external sphincter response explain why patients with complete supraconal spinal lesions experience uncontrollable reflex defecation , while the persistance of external anal sphincter contraction and the absence of any external anal sphincter relaxation during straining ‘ as if to defecate ’ might explain the difficulty that these patients have in consciously expelling rectal contests . |
| 7 | A caterer in Scotland reported to the Guild that many patients turn down salads , pulses , wholemeal bread and fresh fruit salad , preferring the traditional stodge and fried foods . |
| 8 | you 're up against the power relationship that each patient is caught up in with their consultant . |
| 9 | There is , however , abundant evidence that many patients vulnerable to clinical depression have a constitutional deficit of serotonin . |
| 10 | The whole idea of large hospitals for the mentally handicapped is indefensible : there is evidence that many patients do not need , and do not receive , treatment , and a hospital routine is wholly damaging to them . |
| 11 | Although duodenal ulcers ( DU ) rarely form in patients with achlorhydria , the widely held belief that all patients with duodenal ulcer disease secrete excessive amounts of acid is incorrect . |
| 12 | There is an undocumented belief that these patients have a very high stricture recurrence rate because of extensive oesophageal damage and fibrosis . |
| 13 | It will be assumed for the sake of argument that this patient had not indicated or is unable to indicate a desire that treatment on the ventilator be terminated . |
| 14 | Project Development Manager , Richard Summley , says the Council has been very slow in reacting and he denies a claim that disabled patients will also be hit by the fees . |
| 15 | There is a popular misconception that long-stay patients were dumped straight out of mental hospitals on the streets when they were abandoned . |
| 16 | With the proviso that such patients may have atypical cerebral organisation for speech the amytal test provides the best estimate we have of speech lateralisation in left and mixed-handers . |
| 17 | First , can we explain the impaired performance that these patients produce in terms of our functional models ? |
| 18 | The assumption that all patients with presenile Alzheimer 's disease are known to psychiatric services was tested by reference to further data sources . |
| 19 | We tested the assumption that most patients with presenile Alzheimer 's disease are eventually admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 20 | There is no doubt that some patients with alcoholic liver disease have evidence of malnutrition , but it is not a universal finding . |
| 21 | This study does not , however , offer any support for the idea that diabetic patients looked after exclusively in primary care have worse glycaemic control and therefore a poorer prognosis . |
| 22 | These distinctions are important , because the ‘ ancient pine forest ’ myth has led to the idea that chemical-sensitive patients are also likely to react to pine wood and pine products . |
| 23 | This is based on the idea that some patients are unusually susceptible to their environment , the diagnosis and treatment are based on an unstandardised provocation-neutralisation test . |
| 24 | Our observation that female patients carry an improved survival after a curative tumour resection is supported by data from Japan . |
| 25 | The prescribing unit is a weighting factor created by the Department of Health , based on the observation that elderly patients receive overall three times more prescription items than others . |
| 26 | It is of interest that this patient developed three independent primary neoplasms , which may indicate genetic predisposition . |
| 27 | The 55 week interval represents the longest time that any patient remained in the trial . |
| 28 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 29 | Moscovitch found support for his proposition in the fact that split-brain patients sometimes begin to write with the left hand what is clearly a correct response to a stimulus seen in the left visual field , but that then the left hemisphere takes over control and the response is finished incorrectly since the left half of the brain has not seen the stimulus ( Levy , Mebes and Sperry , 1971 ) . |
| 30 | To Freud it was , therefore , a surprising fact that these patients did not dream of being cured of their neurosis , but returned to the original painful situation . |