Example sentences of "[prep] the patients ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nurse is there to make the nursing contribution to the solution , amelioration or prevention of the patients ' actual or potential problems . |
| 2 | They were examined by a single pathologist ( SD ) who was unaware of the patients ' clinical details . |
| 3 | In 2 studies the quality of life was not assessable because of poor compliance and a rapid deterioration of the patients ' physical and cognitive status . |
| 4 | There were no significant changes in the patients ' mean weight and serum creatinine and sodium concentrations throughout the trial . |
| 5 | Shortages of professional staff are very severe in some places and over-reliance on foreign staff is not always in the patients ' best interests in an area where personal communication is so important . |
| 6 | The practice of stopping NSAIDs before investigation or starting H 2 antagonists for a clinical diagnosis of peptic ulceration seems to be in the patients ' best interests if a delay in endoscopy is unavoidable , but may lead to failure to find a definitive cause for the anaemia . |
| 7 | Furthermore , is it not rash to say that it is to be carried out only in the patients ' best interests ? |
| 8 | Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 . |
| 9 | 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 . |