Example sentences of "patients have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Previous study of colonic pressures in paediatric patients has been limited mainly to the rectosigmoid area , because of relative inaccessibility of the proximal colon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The HLA-antigen status of Dupuytren 's patients has been recorded , and at least one possible pattern of expression has emerged . |
| 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 | In another incident , patients had been given fake steroid creams , he added . |
| 10 | Once patients had been seen for an initial consultation , half were treated within five weeks and 80 per cent within six months , she added . |
| 11 | In every relaxation and visualization session , the one common factor amongst patients had been the desire to image a pastoral background . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Only two patients had been prescribed aids or appliances to improve their technique . |
| 14 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 15 | Asthma is usually thought of as a disease of young people , yet most of the patients had been aged over 55 at the time of death , a significant number being elderly ( figure ) . |
| 16 | Interestingly , two of the cases were diagnosed within four days of surgery , and both patients had been mobile up to the day of surgery . |
| 17 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 18 | Before their attack 374 ( 24% ) patients had been receiving bronchodilators alone ( step 1 ) ; in 147 ( 39% ) maintenance treatment was unchanged or reduced after their attack , and 227 ( 61% ) were prescribed medication from step 2 or beyond . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The degree to which the patients had been screened was not significantly related to control . |
| 22 | The one feature which occurred in almost every case was that patients had been discouraged from showing feeling and especially from weeping in childhood . |
| 23 | Civilian patients had been turned out three days earlier , as the hospital prepared to receive wounded from the Eastern theatre of war . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A non-invasive diagnostic method of internal examination of patients had been a long felt want in the medical profession . |
| 26 | At entry all patients had been seropositive for hepatitis B surface antigen ( HBsAg ) and HBeAg for at least six months . |
| 27 | These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985 . |
| 28 | After the removal of the tumours all these patients had been followed up by gastroscopies every six to 12 months . |
| 29 | The OPCS data showed that 77 patients had been admitted because of liver disease on a total of 113 occasions during the study period . |
| 30 | On the morning of the SeHCAT test the patients had been fasting overnight . |