Example sentences of "[prep] our patients " in BNC.

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1 As a profession , we strive to promote a holistic approach towards our patients .
2 ‘ A lot of our patients have been country people and can remember having collies on their farms .
3 ‘ The gentleman to whom we turn when one of our patients , or staff , turns into an acute manic .
4 But the alcohol consumption of Chan et al 's hypercapnic group averaged 124 units/week , which is much higher than that of our patients , whose consumption was similar to that of the population in Edinburgh studied by Chick et al .
5 Recurrent MIs were studied in 26 of our patients ; 11 with an anterior and 15 with an inferior infarction .
6 A section of our patients had complete heart block and our results indicate that in these patients with acute myocardial infarction thrombolytic therapy is effective and safe .
7 In some cases this is probably because the cause of acute renal failure itself was associated with a degree of permanent damage , and elderly people ( who formed the bulk of our patients ) may have less renal reserve and be less able to make a full recovery after an acute insult .
8 Kjellstrand et al showed that incomplete recovery from acute tubular necrosis was common in patients over 55 , the age range of most of our patients .
9 Follow up of our patients showed a much lower rate of sudden death ( two out of 156 or 1.3% , leaving out the patient who died before admission ) .
10 Some of our patients with suffocation or hypoxaemia induced by epilepsy might have died without a definite diagnosis and appropriate management .
11 The newspaper articles supporting Barts are drawn from the experiences of our patients or their relatives and can not simply be ignored .
12 Its methods may improve our understanding of our patients and ourselves and form the basis for behavioural changes , on which reduction of the risks of the disease still largely depend .
13 In conclusion , I hope you can see the enormous challenge fundholding is posing , and how it is an opportunity to make the health service responsive to our needs as general practitioners acting on behalf of our patients .
14 ( 3 ) Implicit acceptance of responsibility for providing a wide range of services to our patients — In taking a fund we accept responsibility for purchasing hospital services , drugs , and now community care on behalf of our patients .
15 To summarize , for a well flagged group of patients , with small solitary non-invasive transition cell carcinomas at d at diagnosis , and negative three month cystoscopy , we found eighty percent of our patients would certainly have come to no harm at all if their second cystoscopy had been one year from diagnosis .
16 Twenty percent of our patients would have had recurrence in that year , but on the basis of our experience , we think it unlikely they would have come to any great harm , as a result of having their cystoscopy delayed , and we would recommend this protocol to the management of superficial bladder cancer .
17 The frequency of agents found in our patients was similar to those reported in earlier studies from Western Europe and the USA , except for cryptosporidium which was detected in 5% of our patients , ina bout 10% of patients in the USA , but in more than 20% of patients in Great Britain and France .
18 Isolation rates of other agents isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of our patients at stage IV were below 4% each which limits an estimation of their pathogenic relevance based on the association with gastrointestinal symptoms .
19 Nonetheless , it should be noted that cytomegalovirus was present in 13 of our patients without diarrhoea .
20 Nevertheless , three of our patients had major neuropsychiatric side effects ( psychosis , seizures ) .
21 In contrast , none of our patients with Crohn 's disease showed a type 1 pattern of staining and only 33% of ulcerative colitis patients were positive .
22 Because most of our patients were men ( 96% ) , our observations may apply only to the male population .
23 In one of our patients endoscopic removal of the carcinoid failed and local excision with accompanying antrectomy was performed .
24 One form , which seems unique to the infected allograft , was seen in four of our patients .
25 Our findings suggest that tumour activity is not a major cause of the lowered serum cholesterol values seen in most of our patients .
26 The medical histories of our patients show a high incidence of concomitant or past diseases with only two patients having an absolutely unremarkable history .
27 As the stent is left in the distal part of the CBD , a future hepaticojejunostomy or choledochoduodenostomy still remains possible as was shown in one of our patients .
28 The correlation observed between age and loss of sweating ability , however , is only significant in subjects who are more than 70 years old , and only one of our patients was over 70 .
29 Given the presence of circulating antibodies in at least some of our patients ( for example anti-A and anti-B in blood group O patients ) this study raises the question of whether a change in cell surface antigens , presumably in the form of one or more carbohydrate epitopes affecting both colon and liver , plays a part in the pathogenesis of this condition .
30 Atrophic gastritis was found in three of our patients and is therefore unlikely to have been an important factor in our study .
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