Example sentences of "patients [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ fashion trade ’ in joint replacements is costing the health service many millions of pounds each year and , even more important , is causing patients unnecessary pain and distress through early failure of unproved implants . |
| 2 | Hayward ( 1975 ) felt that giving patients advance information helped to reduce their anxiety levels during and after treatment . |
| 3 | Even the recent report by the Royal College of Physicians , which was coprepared by Kay , accepts that conventional treatment of allergy leaves patients dissatisfied because of inefficacy or side effects . |
| 4 | Were these patients disadvantaged in any way ? |
| 5 | But already operations on 35 patients due for orthopaedic surgery over the next two days have been cancelled , and more may follow . |
| 6 | The majority of Wear Valley 's GPs do n't have anything like 7,000 patients due to Wear Valley being a rural community and so are in danger of becoming second class citizens . |
| 7 | One room had the smell of a hospital ward , and there were patients asleep there with a nurse in attendance who was not surprised by my intrusion . |
| 8 | Expression of endothelin-1 in lungs of patients withcryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis |
| 9 | Besides , in six patients simultaneous endoscopy during surgery was performed in order to localise the squamous columnar junction . |
| 10 | The association seen in our study may be the result of a shared phenotype in patients prone to develop the disease . |
| 11 | Twenty one patients stimulated bowel movements with either stimulant solutions ( Dulcolax or Biscocodyl ) or suppositories , though 15 of these had to complete rectal evacuation manually . |
| 12 | In the control patients pyloric loss was 16.8 ml h - 1 before smoking and was unchanged afterwards ; an apparent rise in the duodenal ulcer patients from 30 ml h - 1 to 37.5 ml h - 1 ( 25% ) was not significant ( Table I ) . |
| 13 | Thick blood films of 28 patients remained free of parasites until day 28 of follow-up ; in the other 2 patients symptomless parasitaemia of 15 and 50/L was detected on day 28 . |
| 14 | It is also possible that in some patients concurrent radiation proctitis caused rectal irritability and contributed to a stool weight that was lower than would be predictd from stool frequency . |
| 15 | While patients dependent on alcohol who suffer withdrawal are given sedation and heroine addicts receive opiate substitutes , only tobacco users are expected to go ‘ cold turkey ’ or leave their ward to smoke . |
| 16 | Regrettably , the NHS dental service was in many ways so successful that most of the practices of my acquaintance depended entirely on NHS fees with only one or two patients willing to pay for the entire cost of treatment . |
| 17 | In the control group , 18% of patients required intervention varying from verbal encouragement to breathe , to the administration of oxygen . |
| 18 | Half of the patients required colostomies either due to obstructive symptoms before radiotherapy or from radiation induced fibrosis . |
| 19 | The remaining three patients required operations . |
| 20 | Two patients required operation because of further recurrence after heater probe treatment and difficulties in reaching the lesion , respectively . |
| 21 | Currently , with strong competition from many units throughout Europe for available organs , many patients similar to those described herein would die waiting for a suitable donor organ . |
| 22 | Mathiesen et al found a difference in urinary albumin excretion between captopril and no antihypertensive treatment by measuring blood pressure and urinary albumin excretion every four months in 44 patients similar to ours , but this was true only after four years of follow up . |
| 23 | iii Psychogeriatric services Long stay wards tend to be effectively segregated with almost all patients demented . |
| 24 | Failure to diagnose them denies patients simple and effective treatment . |
| 25 | Most of the patients developed ascites , jaundice , and encephalopathy that progressed even after interferon alfa was stopped . |
| 26 | Treatment was discontinued when patients developed evidence of cirrhosis or portal hypertension . |
| 27 | In 1988 Cairns reported in abstract form 90 patients treated with an endoprosthesis , in 39 it was a short term measure as they underwent surgery or endoscopic clearance of the duct in a mean of 2.4 months , two ( 5% ) of these patients developed cholangitis . |
| 28 | Trial criteria — Twenty one patients developed gall stone recurrence . |
| 29 | Two patients developed encephalopathy after TIPSS , in one patient this was controlled by the insertion of a smaller diameter stent within the existing TIPSS . |
| 30 | Six patients developed cancer under the age of fifty . |