Example sentences of "patients ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We measured the patients ' arterial blood gas tensions , forced expiratory volume , and forced vital capacity . |
| 32 | There should be opportunities for discussion of patients ' subsequent management on a regular basis with experienced therapists . |
| 33 | However , behaviour therapy was more effective than insight-oriented therapy for patients ' subsequent depression , anxiety , and assertiveness . |
| 34 | Transplant patients ' winning volley |
| 35 | The problems which these and other patients suffer can mostly be explained in terms of detailed functional models of face processing such as that proposed by Bruce and Young ( 1986 ) , in the same way that patients ' different reading problems could be explained by Coltheart ( 1985 ) . |
| 36 | The patients ' median age was 64 ( range 49–79 ) ; cause of dyspnoea was a lung tumour ( 5 patients ) , lung metastases ( 6 ) , pleural effusion ( 2 ) , and carcinomatous lymphangitis ( 1 ) . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | This illustrates a point discussed later ( p. 181 ) that repeat overdoses often do occur despite apparent improvement in patients ' social circumstances . |
| 39 | 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 ) . |
| 40 | There is , however , evidence that they can benefit patients ' social and psychological problems , but that these benefits are confined to women and people with problems in their relationships with their partners ( most of whom are women ) . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | The local ethical committee 's approval and patients ' informed consent were obtained for the study . |
| 44 | The difficulties encountered in treating vasculitic ulcers were referred to by four nurses , and of the ‘ steroid skin ’ by a further two , while two recognised their failure to heal ulcers was due to patients ' unstable diabetes , and one called for a clinical specialist with specific knowledge of leg ulcers to advise on difficult cases . |
| 45 | 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 . |