Example sentences of "patient [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients lived for many years , and some died from causes unrelated to their blood pressure . |
| 2 | The idea of ‘ half-way ’ houses , where discharged patients lived for a year or eighteen months and then moved to ordinary independent living , became fashionable in the 1960s . |
| 3 | To assess long term survival ( >5 years ) and quality of life in severely ill patients referred for urgent cardiac transplantation . |
| 4 | Though it seems reasonable to assume that the ideal candidate for cardiac transplantation is one who has irreversible cardiac failure and severe symptomatic restrictions despite all treatment but with no requirement for intravenous or interventional support and no secondary end organ damage , in practice many of the patients referred for consideration of transplantation require active support in hospital and have been referred in some cases because they have developed secondary end organ damage . |
| 5 | Keogan et al studied 2017 patients referred for chest radiography and recommended more selective use of chest radiography through the application of selection guidelines . |
| 6 | By three to five years after surgery the actuarial survival rate exceeded that of a control population.This enhanced survival may reflect the fact that patients referred for surgery were highly selected , and an important limitation of these data is that the selection criteria were not explicit . |
| 7 | There was no difference in the number of patients referred for dietary advice or chiropody . |
| 8 | We have recently assessed the frequency of the coeliac like intestinal antibody pattern , a candidate marker of latent coeliac disease , in patients referred for diagnostic small bowel biopsy . |
| 9 | The patterns of referral to our laboratory were similar to those experienced elsewhere , except for a significant number of rheumatology patients , with 11.2% of all patients referred for assessment of suspected connective tissue disease . |
| 10 | Of the 146 patients referred for endoscopic treatment of choledocholithiasis the overall success rate for clearing the common bile duct stones was 72.6% which is somewhat lower than other reported series but might reflect the selection of patients to a specialised centre . |
| 11 | Patients referred for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy because of suspected duodenal ulcers were invited to participate in the study . |
| 12 | Twenty two patients referred for liquid stool incontinence were considered . |
| 13 | Patients transferred after initial diagnosis elsewhere and patients referred for consultation only were excluded . |
| 14 | There were therefore , 375 patients referred for diagnostic purposes . |
| 15 | Patients referred for diagnostic studies were grouped according to their symptoms , whether symptoms developed after operation , and according to the stated anticipation of the result , slow or fast emptying , recorded by the referring clinician . |
| 16 | Abnormal results were obtained for three of nine other patients referred for gastric emptying tests ( systemic sclerosis — 3 patients , gastro-oesophageal reflux — 2 patients , distal pancreatectomy — 2 patients , adult hypertrophic pyloric stenosis — 1 patient , chronic renal failure — 1 patient ) . |
| 17 | Three biopsies of the gastric antrum were taken in 94 random patients referred for routine gastroscopy . |
| 18 | Since elderly patients account for a large proportion of the increased prescribing seen in the past decade , any comparisons between data should take account of the age profile of practice populations . |
| 19 | Most of what is known about acute aluminium poisoning comes from studying patients treated for kidney failure by dialysis . |
| 20 | Thirty six consecutive patients treated for severe acute pancreatitis and its complications in the intensive care unit of the University Central Hospital of Turku were included in the study . |
| 21 | To determine whether proliferative patterns in flat rectal mucosal samples can predict the recurrence of adenomatous colorectal polyps , after polypectomy , rectal mucosal specimens removed from the lesions obtained at endoscopy from 55 patients diagnosed for the first time as having adenomatous colorectal polyps . |
| 22 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 23 | Of the original cohort of 33 patients considered for urgent transplantation , however , 16 had insertion of an intra-aortic balloon pump , but only two of these have survived long term . |
| 24 | I think er a number of the things that are , are meant to be provocative this morning , for example how we get a clinical er evaluation er of patients selected for a T U R P or earlier treatment B P H , but also now |
| 25 | Based on these findings , and on those by Villanova et al showing that : ( i ) patients with multiple primary stones tend to develop multiple recurrent stones while those who originally had solitary stones tend to develop single stone recurrence ; and ( ii ) the recurrence rate in those who initially had solitary stones is only one third of that in patients who originally had multiple stones , we can predict that as patients selected for extra corporeal shock wave dissolution mainly have solitary stones , the recurrence rate after lithotripsy should be lower than that reported here . |
| 26 | The outcome of non-randomised studies has been influenced by the fact that the patients selected for surgery tend to be those in good overall condition with a favourable systemic prognosis . |
| 27 | Perhaps the best approach is to devise methods by which patients conclude for themselves that smoking is harmful and undesirable . |
| 28 | All patients seen for check endoscopy had good control of symptoms at that time . |
| 29 | One third of patients accepted for heart transplantation die before a suitable donor is found . |
| 30 | This control group represents a consecutive 18 patients chosen at random from a period midway through our experience in 1987 to 1989 , who are typical of patients presenting for elective operation for ulcerative colitis . |