Example sentences of "[prep] patients ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | We investigated the predictors of 2-year mortality after patients ' admission to hospital for community-acquired pneumonia , and focused on the predictive value of age . |
| 2 | While the chapel is a recognised central element , the mortuary is a separate building discreetly out of patients ' and visitor 's view . |
| 3 | Against the background of the general discussion in the first part of this chapter , the remainder of this section highlights some types of patients ' problems related to communicating and the relevant nursing activities . |
| 4 | Recommendations thus include the establishment of a ‘ Charter of Patients ' Rights ’ , a ‘ Health Quality Commission ’ and a ‘ Health Technology Commission ; ’ There will also be a ‘ quality agenda ’ for primary care , especially the family doctor service . |
| 5 | There should be opportunities for discussion of patients ' subsequent management on a regular basis with experienced therapists . |
| 6 | Ward learning is however a gradual process , and the student can easily overlook the value of discussions of patients ' progress , the care supervised by a senior nurse and the opportunity to observe experienced people at work . |
| 7 | Statistical modelling of spells in a geriatric ward : Development of models to describe the length of stay of patients in geriatric wards and flows of patients between wards and in and out of hospital ; Applications of these models to a database of patients ' histories in geriatric care . |
| 8 | He was ‘ self-confident , firm in his views , ’ and went out of his way to take charge of patients ' care , said counsel . |
| 9 | What was significant about the Banstead strategy in this respect was that offering continued inpatient care to ‘ decantees ’ was presented by psychiatrists as a protection of patients ' rights , particularly the right to stay in hospital where , they argued , ‘ many resist any suggestion that they should leave the hospital and also become more ill when such suggestions are made … to press such a matter against the patients ’ will would certainly not be in their best interests ' . |
| 10 | Issues that the committee considered inconclusively included the impact of medical advances on the demand for medical time ; possible changes in skill mix ; the consequences on staffing of the interaction between purchasers and providers and of patients ' charters ; the need to reduce hours of work ( only junior doctors are mentioned ) ; possible changes to the career structure ; and the increasing managerial and educational demands on consultants . |
| 11 | He found that he was able to identify the causes of patients ' problems , especially the small , less obvious ones which other prosthetists might miss or regard as trivial . |
| 12 | The accuracy of patients ' self monitoring was shown by the good reproducibility of measurements of control solutions ( Precinorm , Boehringer Mannheim ) and by the good correlation between the monthly triglyceride concentrations measured in the laboratory and the mean monthly preprandial values measured at home ( r =0.88 , p<0.001 . |
| 13 | Only one estimate included consideration of patients ' time , which biased the ranking of this procedure downwards in the league table . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The idea of patients ' rights sounds excellent but , having read the press and listened to what is going on , I suspect that the idea promises much but will deliver little . |
| 16 | The extent of patients ' acceptance or rejection of advice about lifestyle will also be explored , along with the factors individuals see as constraining their behaviour . |
| 17 | A table of patients ' results is available from the corresponding author |
| 18 | Dependency on standardised routines and rough and ready indicators of patients ' needs , such as their level of mobility , is essential ( Proctor 1990 ) . |
| 19 | Shelley was putting her drawer of patients ' notes in alphabetical order , but she looked up from her work to ask quietly , ‘ Do you care for Dr Rafaelo ? ’ |
| 20 | Injections of Clostridium botulinum into patients ' faces reduce wrinkling , researchers at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre in New York have found . |
| 21 | One-third of the specialists ‘ knew their patient less than a month ’ , hardly a reassuring foundation for insight into patients ' non-explicit wishes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Drs Smith and Bothwell appeared to represent a minority view amongst our sample ; most of the respondents appealed to a different set of work orientations which emphasised personal involvement with patients ' problems , ‘ family doctoring ’ and continuity . |
| 24 | Is not the essential difference between Government policies and those of the Opposition that the Government 's prime concern lies with patients ' interests , while Opposition Members ' prime concern is to keep happy the unions that pay and sponsor them ? |
| 25 | HEALTH AUTHORITIES will be expected to adhere to the ‘ firm ’ budgets they are to be given for patients ' drugs , Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , said yesterday . |
| 26 | However , behaviour therapy was more effective than insight-oriented therapy for patients ' subsequent depression , anxiety , and assertiveness . |
| 27 | But this is also the first time that a young doctor takes on daily clinical responsibility for patients ' care , and in reality the service element provided by preregistration house officers underpins the medical care provided in many of our hospitals . |
| 28 | In 1983 , at the time of the introduction of the new Mental Health Act , seen then and now as a breakthrough for patients ' rights , users were barely involved in the mental health debate . |
| 29 | It will be noted that the multi-bedroom has a WC and washing compartment with direct access to a lobby for patients ' use while the remaining WC and washing compartments and bathroom should be located so as to be of easy access from the single rooms . |
| 30 | But it was heartened by a reference elsewhere in the legislation that GPs could exceed their drugs budgets if they had ‘ good cause ’ — a term which the BMA will interpret as patients ' needs . |