Example sentences of "of patients [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The target groups for a day hospital for dementing patients would be the 3 lowest categories — C , D and E. All category E patients would be included as well as a proportion of those in group D and a smaller proportion of group C. Although inevitably factors such as level of agreement to use day hospital facilities and the frequency of attendance of patients influence the final figure , 7–9 day places is not an unrealistic figure , though this exceeds current nationally derived guidelines . |
| 2 | Nursing care of patients prescribed interleukin-2 . |
| 3 | I think er a number of the things that are , are meant to be provocative this morning , for example how we get a clinical er evaluation er of patients selected for a T U R P or earlier treatment B P H , but also now |
| 4 | After the development of lymph node metastases and distant metastases , median survival of patients declined significantly . |
| 5 | One third of patients accepted for heart transplantation die before a suitable donor is found . |
| 6 | A proportion of patients admitted the overdose was aimed at influencing a partner or other person in close proximity . |
| 7 | The motor function of the sphincter seemed to be persistently improved in patients regaining continence , but not in poor responders ( 71% of patients tested after training ) . |
| 8 | About a third of patients suffer from post-infarct angina . |
| 9 | Up to 25% of patients progress to chronicity and invalidism , their psychiatric difficulties compounded by medical sequelae , such as an increased susceptibility to infection , osteoporosis , or renal failure , which severely undermine their quality of life . |
| 10 | Approximately 25% of patients develop dysphagia , aspiration problems and hypoxia , owing to oropharyngeal and respiratory weakness , and may require ventilation . |
| 11 | After cholecystectomy , 30–50% of patients develop post cholecystectomy symptoms and 34–50% of these complain of wound pain one to two years later . |
| 12 | These studies , although not conclusive because of the variability in lesion site and size and the limited number of patients studied , suggested the left inferior parietal lobule , of which left BA 40 is part , as the location of the phonological store . |
| 13 | Because of the small numbers of patients studied , our findings are only preliminary . |
| 14 | This could be because of the small number of patients studied , but it is in agreement with the results of Hopman et al , who measured postprandial gall bladder contraction in patients on long term ( six months ) intermittent injection treatment . |
| 15 | When the number of stones is limited , especially the group of solitary stones with a maximal diameter below 20 mm , the results are excellent with 84% of patients stone free after one year . |
| 16 | Analysis of SaO 2 data showed the number of patients exceeding the set criteria of hypoxia in the control and oxygen treated groups were eight and one respectively . |
| 17 | In one series only one third of patients complaining of heartburn or regurgitation two years after fundoplication and had abnormal 24 hour pH score . |
| 18 | This study was designed to evaluate ano rectal sensorimotor function and the effectiveness of biofeedback treatment in a group of patients complaining of liquid stool incontinence and severe urgency resistant to conventional medicine treatments . |
| 19 | Exposure to radiation is another area of concern , affecting radiologists , doctors , dentists and nurses who are involved in the use of X-ray procedures and care of patients undergoing treatment with radioactive substances . |
| 20 | A retrospective analysis was undertaken of the results of the first attempt at in vitro fertilization ( IVF ) treatment to evaluate the effects of cigarette smoking by either partner in events preceding and during oocyte recovery , fertilization , implantation , and early pregnancy in a group of patients undergoing IVF-ET . |
| 21 | The major focus of nursing in a surgical ward is the care of patients undergoing and recovering from surgical ( operative ) procedures . |
| 22 | The principles of care for many of the patients in the ward may be similar , e.g. the preparation carried out pre-operatively to ensure the safety of patients undergoing surgery . |
| 23 | The finding of normal cholesterol values in the group of patients undergoing similar preparation before colonoscopy , eliminated the preparatory protocol as a contributor to the lowered cholesterol values . |
| 24 | In 1949 Lemon and Byrne reported a large series of patients undergoing duodenal aspiration cytology with a test sensitivity of over 70% . |
| 25 | Smoking was also found to be associated with a substantial protective effect in a case-control study of symptomatic gall bladder disease , and in a recent case-control study of patients undergoing cholecystectomy . |
| 26 | Comparison of relative changes in SaO 2 by Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test showed the oxygen treated group to have significantly higher ( p<0.01 ) SaO 2 readings at all times until the total number of patients fell to less than 10 because of procedure completion ( Figure ) . |
| 27 | The two groups of patients assigned to receive either amoxicillin/omeprazole ( group I ) or triple therapy plus ranitidine ( group II ) had similar demographic and clinical characteristics ( Table II ) . |
| 28 | With current failure rates of around 1% a year a new design that was a 30% improvement over an older one ( a truly radical improvement ) would require a trial of many thousands of patients followed up for at least a decade before a significant difference could be shown . |
| 29 | A number of patients show a more general sensitivity to fungi , and are affected by inhaling spores from moulds . |
| 30 | Even when an oxytocic agent is not given a small proportion of patients show an increase in plasma oxytocin concentration during the late second or early third stage of labour . |