Example sentences of "patients ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General practitioners generally cope with whatever is thrown their way , be it the shift of complex clinical management of cases into the community with less hospitalisation , changes in hospital policy resulting in a shift of costs to the community budget , underfunding of secondary sector posts and beds , the 1990 general practitioner contract , or patients ' increased expectations in a cost cutting climate of health care . |
| 2 | There were no significant changes in the patients ' mean weight and serum creatinine and sodium concentrations throughout the trial . |
| 3 | This chapter will suggest contributions you may make towards minimizing patients ' possible anxiety . |
| 4 | The nurse is there to make the nursing contribution to the solution , amelioration or prevention of the patients ' actual or potential problems . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Gradually the patients ' new environment seems less strange and threatening as they become aware of the possibilities for communication between hospital and their familiar environment . |
| 7 | With the agreement of patients , the CAB workers will be allowed access to basic information , such as patients ' legal status , doctor , ward and welfare benefits . |
| 8 | A measure of the relief from intractable heartburn and regurgitation was the patients ' expressed willingness to repeat the operation given circumstances similar to those before the first fundoplication . |
| 9 | Accordingly , she quietly left the nurses ' station to go and take her patients ' before-lunch blood sugars , and carefully avoided Deana for the rest of the shift . |
| 10 | Patients ' final diagnoses were based on histological and clinical findings ( table I ) . |
| 11 | However , in one large series , including all types of oesophageal carcinomas , patients ' late outcome was influenced significantly by tumour staging and histological grading . |
| 12 | This barrenness of bacterial feedback coupled with many patients ' understandable neurosis makes the condition one that provides difficulties for patient and doctor alike . |
| 13 | The advantage of chemotherapy in previously asymptomatic patients might be questioned in view of the side effects and the initial , though only minor and transient , decrease in patients ' subjective wellbeing . |
| 14 | Visick grading seemed to enhance the patients ' subjective estimation of postoperative symptoms . |
| 15 | Several nurses believed their patients ' psychosocial state had a direct bearing on a leg ulcer 's progress , reporting extensive ulceration in patients who were ‘ agoraphobic ’ , of ‘ low intelligence ’ , ‘ neglected by their families ’ , ‘ living in poor housing ’ , ‘ poor hygiene ’ , ‘ confused ’ , and ‘ depressed ’ . |
| 16 | That doctors ' sex , age , years as a principal , training , or teaching and training activity were not shown significantly to influence their patients ' diabetic control . |
| 17 | The patients ' usual dose of other medications taken for colitis such as oral mesalazine , olsalazine , sulphasalazine , and corticosteroids taken in the previous month remained unchanged throughout the trial . |
| 18 | The 1983 Mental Health Act , while safeguarding patients ' civil rights , has made many mental health professionals reluctant to use its compulsory powers except in extreme cases . |
| 19 | A recent research study ( News , 1988 ) , for example , showed that patients ' smoking habits changed more favourably after nurses ' intervention , compared to studies involving other health care professions . |
| 20 | The patients ' clinical state was usually of hypotension and sinus tachycardia , with a third heart sound almost invariably heard . |
| 21 | The patients ' clinical disease activity during the interval period was then classified as remission/mild , moderate , or severe using Truelove and Witt 's criteria . |
| 22 | All 268 first referrals were reviewed using a copy of the manometry report held in the laboratory and the patients ' clinical notes . |
| 23 | They were examined by a single pathologist ( SD ) who was unaware of the patients ' clinical details . |
| 24 | ‘ She collected all the patients ' false teeth last night — and put them into the same bowl ! |
| 25 | Twenty two patients ' lying mean arterial blood pressure and 19 patients ' standing mean arterial blood pressure fell more with nifedipine than with propranolol . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A variety of ring thicknesses may ultimately assist in meeting patients ' differing requirements the thicker the ring , the greater the reshaping of the cornea . |
| 28 | A variety of ring thicknesses may ultimately assist in meeting patients ' differing requirements the thicker the ring , the greater the reshaping of the cornea . |
| 29 | One-third of the specialists ‘ knew their patient less than a month ’ , hardly a reassuring foundation for insight into patients ' non-explicit wishes . |
| 30 | The paper on diary keeping in asthma actually takes anecdote , in its broadest sense of narrative of uncertain significance , as its subject , testing the reliability of patients ' written accounts of their asthmatic symptoms . |