Example sentences of "patients [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visiting patients referred to me , and liaising with relatives and key workers , as well as neighbours , GPs , community psychiatric nurses , social workers . |
| 2 | Clinical experience has shown that the treatment approach can be used with approximately 30–40 per cent of patients referred to the general hospital after attempted suicide . |
| 3 | The vast majority of patients referred to general hospitals because of acts of self-harm have taken overdoses . |
| 4 | Although at least 80 per cent of patients referred to the general hospital in Oxford after self-injury have cut themselves superficially , it seems likely that many more episodes of deliberate self-cutting occur than are identified through general hospital records . |
| 5 | All patients referred to the ENP were given the opportunity to be seen by a doctor . |
| 6 | In early 1988 we reported in this journal the short term outcome in 33 patients referred to the National Heart Hospital between late 1984 and the end of 1986 and who were accepted for urgent cardiac transplantation . |
| 7 | Ninety nine ( 86% ) patients referred to the ophthalmology clinic had advanced retinopathy confirmed , and those who did not receive laser photocoagulation underwent frequent continuing ophthalmic assessment . |
| 8 | Patients referred to consultant outpatient clinics . |
| 9 | There was no significant difference in the number of patients referred to hospital eye clinics . |
| 10 | After allowing for the much higher non-attendance rate in controls , the annual rate of eye examination per patient and the number of patients referred to a hospital ophthalmic clinic were comparable in the two groups . |
| 11 | Many of the patients referred to the General Surgery and ENT departments have complex problems and benefit from the highly specialist expertise available there . |
| 12 | In contrast , hospital based series have usually shown an increased mortality , which probably reflects the severity of disease in patients referred to specialist units from outside the area . |
| 13 | Therefore , we evaluated the role of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy in a consecutive series of patients referred to our gastroenterology department with bile duct injury after laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |
| 14 | Patients with suspected iron deficiency anaemia account for some four per cent of the patients referred to our gastroenterology clinic . |
| 15 | To assess this test , we measured carbamylated haemoglobin prospectively in 42 consecutive patients referred to the regional renal unit with a serum creatinine in excess of 500 mol/L and a provisional diagnosis of acute renal failure ( ARF ) . |
| 16 | 42 consecutive patients referred to the regional renal unit for management of acute renal failure ( serum creatinine >500 mol/L ) were enrolled into the study , which had been approved by the local medical ethics committee . |
| 17 | We studied 116 patients referred to the pigmented lesion clinic at the Western Infirmary , Glasgow , because of concern over an atypical naevus pattern . |
| 18 | The mean times to ulcer healing were calculated for patients exposed to different risk factors , and the combined effects of the clinically relevant risk factors were assessed by calculating the two , four , and eight week healing rates and the mean times to healing in the presence of increasing numbers of risk factors . |
| 19 | Our hypothesis is that specialised type CLO predisposes to the development of adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus because of increased proliferative activity and that tumour development occurs in patients exposed to an environmental carcinogen most commonly ingested in cigarette smoke . |
| 20 | SIR , — In your April 24 editorial you state that the risk for patients exposed to an HIV-infected healthcare worker ( HCW ) can not be accurately calculated but must be small . |
| 21 | Although I generally agree with this statement , the continued denial of risk for patients exposed to HIV-infected HCWs without scientific data does not reassure the population . |
| 22 | The serological follow-up of other groups of patients exposed to HIV-infected HCWs is also low — for instance , only 75 of 1804 patients in one US study and only 76 of 339 from a UK study . |
| 23 | They also urged further research into the frequency and risk factors for patients exposed to blood during invasive procedures . |
| 24 | In the TIMI 2B study about a quarter of the patients assigned to conservative strategy required angiography and further intervention . |
| 25 | Three patients assigned to surgery subsequently refused operation and received no further treatment until bleeding recurred . |
| 26 | Both treatments were effective in inducing clinical remission : 15 of the 17 patients given steroids and 12 of the 15 patients assigned to the polymeric diet went into clinical remission ( defined by a Van Hees index < within four weeks of treatment . |
| 27 | Nine of 22 ( 41% ) patients assigned to nutritional treatment were intolerant of the diet . |
| 28 | Of the 22 patients assigned to dietary treatment , nine ( 41% ) could not tolerate elemental diet whether given orally or nasogastrically . |
| 29 | Consequently 41% of our patients assigned to dietary treatment , despite hospitalisation , could not tolerate the elemental diet regimen and we could not reproduce the high compliance rates reported by others . |
| 30 | Some of the patients assigned to prednisolone did receive this drug for more than four weeks . |