Example sentences of "patients ' [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General practitioners generally cope with whatever is thrown their way , be it the shift of complex clinical management of cases into the community with less hospitalisation , changes in hospital policy resulting in a shift of costs to the community budget , underfunding of secondary sector posts and beds , the 1990 general practitioner contract , or patients ' increased expectations in a cost cutting climate of health care . |
| 2 | Patients ' final diagnoses were based on histological and clinical findings ( table I ) . |
| 3 | The 1983 Mental Health Act , while safeguarding patients ' civil rights , has made many mental health professionals reluctant to use its compulsory powers except in extreme cases . |
| 4 | A recent research study ( News , 1988 ) , for example , showed that patients ' smoking habits changed more favourably after nurses ' intervention , compared to studies involving other health care professions . |
| 5 | All 268 first referrals were reviewed using a copy of the manometry report held in the laboratory and the patients ' clinical notes . |
| 6 | They were examined by a single pathologist ( SD ) who was unaware of the patients ' clinical details . |
| 7 | ‘ She collected all the patients ' false teeth last night — and put them into the same bowl ! |
| 8 | The data relating to the patients ' dietary habits were collected after endoscopically confirmed ulcer healing in 985 patients to assess their habitual intake in relation to their normal physical activity , in the absence of active ulceration . |
| 9 | A variety of ring thicknesses may ultimately assist in meeting patients ' differing requirements the thicker the ring , the greater the reshaping of the cornea . |
| 10 | A variety of ring thicknesses may ultimately assist in meeting patients ' differing requirements the thicker the ring , the greater the reshaping of the cornea . |
| 11 | One-third of the specialists ‘ knew their patient less than a month ’ , hardly a reassuring foundation for insight into patients ' non-explicit wishes . |
| 12 | The paper on diary keeping in asthma actually takes anecdote , in its broadest sense of narrative of uncertain significance , as its subject , testing the reliability of patients ' written accounts of their asthmatic symptoms . |
| 13 | Gibbons et al. ( 1978a ) demonstrated that treatment by social workers using a standardized task-centred approach ( Reid and Epstein 1972 ) was more effective in terms of improving patients ' social problems than traditional care recommended by psychiatrists , although only for female patients ( Gibbons 1979 ) . |
| 14 | This illustrates a point discussed later ( p. 181 ) that repeat overdoses often do occur despite apparent improvement in patients ' social circumstances . |
| 15 | Patients ' social circumstances should be checked by ward staff to identify those likely to need services , undertake initial assessments and prepare discharge plans in close liaison with social work staff . |
| 16 | The role of psychotropic medication in such cases should be made clear to the patient , particularly where medication is only a means of assisting coping behaviour rather than dealing with patients ' fundamental problems . |
| 17 | The cause of the pain was attributed to gall bladder irritability , as it resembled the patients ' original attacks of biliary colic ; yet on cholecystoscopy at or after 10 days only one patient had appreciable mucosal inflammatory change . |