Example sentences of "patients have [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The HLA-antigen status of Dupuytren 's patients has been recorded , and at least one possible pattern of expression has emerged . |
| 2 | Previous study of colonic pressures in paediatric patients has been limited mainly to the rectosigmoid area , because of relative inaccessibility of the proximal colon . |
| 3 | The FAP gene , thought to be crucial in the development of colorectal cancer in these patients has been localised to chromosome 5q , and has been characterised . |
| 4 | Electrical stimulation of the exposed cortex in a small group of patients has been reported to disrupt production of single oral-facial movements at exactly the same electrode sites that produce speech arrest during naming of objects . |
| 5 | An enhancement in the survival of gastric cancer patients has been reported by Tonnesen et al , after treatment with the histamine 2 receptor antagonist , cimetidine . |
| 6 | Working for patients has been criticised for failing to emphasise the importance of people and not being more specific about the need for personnel management . |
| 7 | Secondly , gastric somatostatin concentrations have been found to be low after long term omeprazole treatment in rats , and thirdly , exogenous administration of somatostatin to hypergastrinaemia patients has been shown to inhibit significantly gastrin release . |
| 8 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 9 | Civilian patients had been turned out three days earlier , as the hospital prepared to receive wounded from the Eastern theatre of war . |
| 10 | In another incident , patients had been given fake steroid creams , he added . |
| 11 | All hospital patients had been given a diagnosis of primary depression uncomplicated by any underlying condition such as alcoholism , but were also given a full clinical interview ( PSE ) by the research psychiatrist . |
| 12 | All 3 patients had been kissed by patient M10 ( also an inpatient ) under the mistletoe several days earlier during Christmas festivities in the hospital . |
| 13 | Forth patients had been operated on , 14 of whom had been subjected to only ileocoecal resection . |
| 14 | These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985 . |
| 15 | The sensitivity of Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG described in our study is almost identical to that found by another groups , but the lower specificity could be explained by one or more of the following : their reliance on histology as a standard , which might be difficult to interpret in the presence of very few organisms ; the exclusion from their study of patients with chronic superficial or atrophic gastritis in whom H pylori was not identified , thus reducing the number of true negatives ; the relatively high number of cases of chemical gastritis in their H pylori negative group without specifying whether these patients had been treated with NSAID ; and the presence in their H pylori positive group of chronic atrophic gastritis in 117 of 160 ( 73% ) , which may have been paralleled by a rise in the number of false positive cases . |
| 16 | In addition , none of the patients had been treated with bismuth preparations or with immunosuppressive therapy . |
| 17 | Nineteen of the patients had been treated with zidovudine , and 17 were on the drug at the time of diagnosis ; two patients were taking dideoxyinosine . |
| 18 | Once patients had been seen for an initial consultation , half were treated within five weeks and 80 per cent within six months , she added . |
| 19 | After the removal of the tumours all these patients had been followed up by gastroscopies every six to 12 months . |
| 20 | The most notorious was in 1984 when it was reported that two detained patients had been beaten to death by staff of Hotokukai Utsunomiya Hospital . |
| 21 | By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or ulcer size . |
| 22 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 23 | Thirty four patients had been maintained on delayed release mesalazine for a minimum of six months and 28 had been maintained on long term sulphasalazine . |
| 24 | An outbreak of Beijing flu had been expected , and many patients had been immunised early . |
| 25 | Only two patients had been prescribed aids or appliances to improve their technique . |
| 26 | Before their attack 356 ( 23% ) patients had been prescribed treatment at step 2 , 275 ( 77% ) of whom remained at step 2 or lower after the attack , and 81 ( 23% ) had their treatment stepped up according to recommended guidelines . |
| 27 | Before their attack 303 ( 20% ) patients had been prescribed step 3 medication ; 281 ( 93% ) remained at step 3 or lower after the attack and 23 ( 7% ) had their maintenance treatment stepped up . |
| 28 | Recruitment was stopped in March 1988 , by which time 2109 patients had been enrolled . |
| 29 | For this reason , and also to ensure that adequate numbers of patients had been recruited , the present trial was extended from two , to a maximum of five , years . |
| 30 | Only one of these patients had been recruited and had then defaulted . |