Example sentences of "use of [noun sg] care " in BNC.

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1 Residential homes , and long stay nursing homes in particular , appear to cut down the use of hospital care during the last year of people 's lives .
2 Residential homes seem to cut down the use of hospital care ; they probably also reduce the need for it , but this is less certain .
3 Our study has collected data from 10 first wave fundholding practices and seven non-fundholding practices to measure their use of hospital care ( inpatient and outpatient ) , the speed and nature of the hospitals ' response to requests from the practices , prescribing patterns and costs , and any innovations or changes introduced in practice based facilities , as well as monitoring the views and experience of general practitioners , hospital consultants , and patients .
4 First , assessment of efficiency explicitly requires consideration of both the resource use and the improvements in health obtained from the use of health care interventions .
5 In order to do this health authorities must have comprehensive information about the existing use of health care .
6 There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands .
7 Variation in use of health care between the sexes does not explain the strong association between Alzheimer 's disease and female sex .
8 Oral health may be a more general indicator of personal hygiene and health care practices , including access to and use of health care services .
9 A screening programme is a public health measure , and any balanced discussion should make at least some reference to its overall impact on the use of health care resources .
10 It employs structured health behaviour questionnaires and informal , in-depth interview techniques to discover if there are regional variations in how people see health and illness , if these views affect the ways in which people need health care , and if these perceived needs are in turn related to the actual demand for and use of health care facilities .
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