Example sentences of "patient were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time that the present series of transplant patients were referred for surgery our transplant centre was one of a fairly small number seeking suitable donor organs , not just in Britain but in continental Europe . |
| 2 | Bradlow et al reviewed 3678 referrals from general practitioners to dermatology outpatient clinics and found that 26% of patients were referred for diagnosis or investigation , 14% for advice only , 63% for treatment or management , and 2% for a second opinion or reassurance . |
| 3 | Thirteen patients were referred for this treatment as they were considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy either on account of age ( n=4 , range 79–86 years ) or serious medical problems ( n=9 , range 72–78 years ) including one patient ( X ) who was on the waiting list for a heart transplant . |
| 4 | In Meshkinpour 's study all patients had manometry performed routinely in addition to an oesophagogram , whereas in our study most patients were referred for manometry only when prior investigations had failed to identify the cause of their symptoms . |
| 5 | One hundred and fourteen patients were referred for the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia . |
| 6 | Most of the patients were referred for investigation to the Department of Gastroenterology of Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital , and the remainder were seen at the Third Department of Internal Medicine , Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine . |
| 7 | These sources confirmed that most patients were cared for within psychiatric services . |
| 8 | The main focus of the programme will be an exhibition providing information on mental illness and an historical view of how patients were cared for throughout history right up to the recent changes in local provision . |
| 9 | The other 20 men and 10 women started antihypertensive medication at mean ages of 35.5 and 40.8 years respectively ; many patients were observed for long periods before starting medication , especially in the early 1970s . |
| 10 | There was no correlation between faecal fat ( g fat/24 hours ) and faecal bile acid ( µmol bile acid/ 24 hours ) excretion in the patient group as a whole or when patients were stratified for the presence or absence of liver disease ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 11 | After the procedure the patients were monitored for evidence of bleeding and prophylactic antibiotic ( cefotaxime ) was administered for 48 hours . |
| 12 | The patients were monitored for any streptococcal infections during sampling , but no attempt was made to measure the amount of streptokinase absorbed . |
| 13 | Cotton also presented in 1987 17 patients , two ( 12% ) developed biliary related problems requring surgery , one having a stormy postoperative period but no deaths ; two had a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with duct clearance and five died of unrelated causes ; the remaining eight patients were followed for a mean of 39 months . |
| 14 | After polypectomy , patients were followed for 24 months and underwent complete colonoscopy every 6 months to detect and remove any metachronous lesions . |
| 15 | Patients were accepted for endoscopic injection if an active bleeder ( spurter or oozer ) was seen during an emergency endoscopic examination after resuscitation . |
| 16 | In the past , many patients were accepted for bile acid treatment without specific , gall stone related symptoms . |
| 17 | Patients were tested for allergy with a wide variety of substances , including gas and petrol fumes , milk , coffee , yeast , soya , and onion . |
| 18 | Ninety six of the 124 E coli isolates from 66 patients with ulcerative volitis and from eight non-inflammatory bowel disease control patients were tested for hydrophobicity . |
| 19 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 20 | Ten patients were treated for six months ; six patients withdrew because of adverse effects . |
| 21 | In 1989 , that is three years after the original gastroscopic screening , the same pernicious anaemia patients were called for a follow up gastroscopy . |
| 22 | All patients were considered for skin po 2 monitoring at home . |
| 23 | Patients were considered for the trial on the basis of : ( 1 ) symptoms consistent with activity of the disease ( abdominal pain , diarrhoea , weight loss , anorexia , fever ) ; ( 2 ) two or more abnormal laboratory indices indicative of active disease ( erythrocyte sedimentation rate ( ESR ) >30 mm/h , haemoglobin concentration ( Hb ) <12 g/dl for men and <11.5 g/dl for women , C-reactive protein ( CRP ) >3 mg/l , platelet count >350000 cells/mm ) ; and ( 3 ) Van Hees activity index ( VHAI ) greater than 120 . |
| 24 | Between September 1986 and March 1988 , 2109 patients were recruited for the study . |
| 25 | Eleven of these patients were recruited for the study during the first 24 hours of illness . |
| 26 | All patients were investigated for bowel pathogens at the time of diagnosis of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 27 | Nineteen patients were excluded for various reasons . |
| 28 | The other patients were excluded for lower frequency of incontinence ( three patients ) or absence of severe urgency ( three patients ) . |
| 29 | Although the 12 such patients were identified for more than 400 patients with DU examined , this may not represent the true prevalence of H pylori negative patients with DU as not all the 400 patients with DU had their H pylori state determined with the same stringency . |
| 30 | On 16 September 1992 , 115 patients were waiting for their notes . |