Example sentences of "[prep] patients " in BNC.

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1 Clearly those looking after patients following infarction need to be aware that a significant number will be known diabetics and some will have undiagnosed diabetes , and they will all tend to have a higher mortality than non-diabetics .
2 Junior nurses usually work alongside more senior nurses or are allocated to look after patients who require the sort of care they are familiar with .
3 It is now incumbent on everybody looking after patients following a myocardial infarct to try to reason out what caused the condition and to try to do something about stopping it .
4 We investigated the predictors of 2-year mortality after patients ' admission to hospital for community-acquired pneumonia , and focused on the predictive value of age .
5 Everyone is agreed that looking after patients in the community is a more expensive option than keeping them inside a hospital , where all the facilities are available under one roof .
6 nurse at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , and friend of Mrs Gamp 's , whom she closely resembles in her slatternly ways , brutal behaviour towards patients , and ignorance of elementary nursing procedure .
7 ACFA membership is biased towards patients attending larger treatment centres where there is awareness of the cystic fibrosis trust , but it contains a substantial proportion of patients who would not be included in a study based on large clinics .
8 These include : pedal cycles for a clinic allowing nurses to get out to outlying villages ; health care kits to help with the care of patients in their own homes ; training for different agencies ; and a variety of education initiatives .
9 The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other .
10 This is because no two patients are likely to have identical injuries , and large groups of patients are even less likely to be homogenous .
11 regularly validating lists to ensure that they do not contain the names of patients no longer requiring treatment ;
12 There is an urgent need for the NHS Review to focus on the development of training at all levels to ensure that properly qualified , trained staff are available to provide not only hospital care , but support and rehabilitative care for increased numbers of patients .
13 From Dr Armand Pastor GP Sir , I have started to get an extraordinary amount of patients with minor and sometimes major physical injuries caused by supermarket trolleys - pulled muscles , dislocated cartilages , broken fingers and limbs , ruptured yoghurt , etc .
14 Dr Williams said doctors should be put under a legal obligation to approach relatives of patients who have died in intensive care units and would make suitable organ donors .
15 It was of prime importance that ‘ money follows the patient ’ , ending the present haphazard funding of patients across district boundaries .
16 ‘ What that means is that NHS hospitals will be resourced according to the number of patients they treat .
17 BRITAIN 'S official drug safety committee is reviewing warnings to diabetics after deaths of patients taking insulin from human rather than animal sources .
18 Confirmation of the official safety review came after a n investigation by Channel Four television into the deaths of patients .
19 It is not a cumulative figure obtained by adding up the cost of treating a given volume of specific diseases and of restoring to health , or transferring to a better world , a given number of patients .
20 The review abolished local authority representation in health service bodies , gave a greater role to the Audit Commission to ensure value for money , gave doctors budgets and linked a greater share of their salaries to the number of patients treated , and held out the possibility of hospitals ‘ opting out ’ and becoming self-governing .
21 In 1989 it was planned that doctors would have to work to new contracts , under which their pay would be more clearly related to the number of patients .
22 Mr Sells said data emerging from hospitals in Madras was offering an alternative where it was impractical and too expensive to treat large numbers of patients on dialysis machines .
23 This may result in swift and brutal treatment of patients with complaints which are difficult to diagnose .
24 At least one-third of patients on the waiting list die each year because of this shortage .
25 THE Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , denied in the Commons yesterday that his new NHS and Community Care Bill was a first step towards privatisation and accused his critics of trying to ‘ scare the life ’ out of patients .
26 Under the scheme , doctors will enter details of patients , their illnesses , their treatments and the results .
27 Labour will use the bill 's committee stage , which began yesterday , to argue that the legislation is silent on how care standards will be measured in the NHS 's new contract culture and how the views of patients will be taken into account .
28 It voted to cease all transfers of patients between hospitals from midnight .
29 This split will force the NHS to pay more attention to the needs of patients and less to the convenience of doctors .
30 The Swedish reforms give patients more freedom to choose who treats them and make the resources allocated to doctors ( including their pay packets ) dependent on the number of patients they can attract .
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