Example sentences of "[conj] some patient " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if you work in a surgical unit where some patients have a limb amputated , the physiotherapist and occupational therapist are key members of the team . |
| 2 | It is probable that many patients are treated privately and so these cases are not notified and also that some patients may come to England for diagnosis and treatment . |
| 3 | It is in fact possible that some patients , especially those with marked symptoms of anxiety or depression , benefit from drugs and are better able to cope with their problems as a result , but the size of this group is not known . |
| 4 | Gastroenterologists Virginia Alun Jones , John Hunter , and colleagues at Addenbrooke 's Hospital ( Lancet , 1982 , vol 2 , p 1115 ) , have shown that some patients improve when their diet is altered , suggesting that IBS is an aspect food intolerance . |
| 5 | This is based on the idea that some patients are unusually susceptible to their environment , the diagnosis and treatment are based on an unstandardised provocation-neutralisation test . |
| 6 | A recurring comment was that some patients deliberately prolong treatment . |
| 7 | Remember that some patients will be more prone to hazards than others but that there may be occasions when all patients could be at risk . |
| 8 | Failure to pay due regard to the relativities between units will ensure that some nurses work under greater pressure than necessary and that some patients receive a reduced level of service . |
| 9 | Against those who advocated the end of any separate provision for the mentally ill were those who argued that some patients could best be helped by care within specialized institutions provided these were not huge , obsolete in design and rigidly organized . |
| 10 | This study shows that some patients are not referred for specialist opinion , the shortfall being mainly among elderly people . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the fact that some patients had already failed to respond to tricyclics before entering the trial might have introduced a bias against this class of drugs . |
| 12 | Half the patients who require heart surgery are dealt with immediately , but the hon. Gentleman is right to say that some patients have to wait . |
| 13 | Particular emphasis will be given to the implications of the finding that some patients with visual recognition impairments resulting from brain injury can show evidence , in implicit tasks , of ‘ covert ’ recognition of stimuli they fail to recognise explicitly . |
| 14 | This phenomenon has been discussed above and is not because of the carcinogenic effect of cimetidine but undoubtedly reflects that some patients with gastric cancer were thought to have peptic ulcer and therefore treated with cimetidine . |
| 15 | In conclusion , this study highlights the fact that some patients are not being referred for consideration for liver transplantation when this might be life saving . |
| 16 | One possibility is that some patients thought to be stone free may , in reality , have had residual debris despite our use of the best available techniques ( ultrasonagraphy+oral cholecystectography ) to ‘ confirm ’ complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that some patients with alcoholic liver disease have evidence of malnutrition , but it is not a universal finding . |
| 18 | This speculation would accord with the fact that some patients with myelodysplasia and a 5q deletion have a very low risk of transformation ( eg , 5q syndrome ) whereas in other myelodysplasia patients a 5q deletion is associated with poor prognosis ( eg , secondary MDS ) . |
| 19 | Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed . |
| 20 | By using a combination of laser optics and cancer drugs , it 's hoped that some patients will be in and out of hospital within a day . |
| 21 | Although some patients do attend with a letter from their GP , many prefer to come directly to the clinic , as this saves time and possible embarrassment if they would rather that their family doctor did n't know about the particular problem . |
| 22 | Although some patients may develop serious complications such as fistulas , pelvic sepsis , pouchitis , and strictures the outcome in these patients is not necessarily a catastrophe and some enjoy remarkably satisfactory pouch function at least in the medium term . |
| 23 | However , Marsilid also had more unwanted effects than its companion drug , and some patients experienced psychotic episodes . |
| 24 | For many years it had been thought that high fever had certain curative properties , and some patients were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes which were known to be carrying the malarial parasite in the hope that the resulting infection and high temperature would have a beneficial effect on the disease process . |
| 25 | Although the proportion of deliberate self-poisoning or self-injury patients who require psychiatric inpatient care is fairly small , this group is of special importance because it includes those most likely to have serious psychiatric disorders , those at special risk of suicide or further attempts , and some patients who pose very difficult management problems . |
| 26 | Recovering patients rapidly acquire anticipatory responses to the noise of the tea trolley , and some patients may show excessive anxiety reactions to the sight of a hypodermic syringe . |
| 27 | It is a major procedure with a small but not insignificant mortality rate and some patients experience severe and persistent side-effects , although many of them seem to regard these as preferable to being ‘ superobese ’ . |
| 28 | Respiratory function is usually decreased by tissue oedema , and some patients may therefore need oxygen therapy . |
| 29 | A decision by parents to initiate resuscitation is subjective and some patients will have received this without a real need , as illustrated in patients whose subsequent and similar events were due to skin perfusion changes . |
| 30 | But the corn cores caused abdominal pain and some patients said people had died from it . |