| If she is not on duty, she is on call so that she can respond around the clock to patients' needs. |
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| The ethical principle of autonomy asserts the primacy of patients' individual choices. |
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| We have no business to be involved in our patients' financial affairs and it is not appropriate to become involved. |
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| She listened to patients' problems and helped them in realistic and practical ways. |
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| Observers also recorded the types of oral cleaning products that were located at the patients' bedsides and in the unit. |
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| Massage therapists knead patients' muscles and other soft tissues with their hands. |
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| Most health professionals are motivated by altruism and concern for patients' best interests. |
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| Specific strategies can help to remedy this deficiency and improve patients' understanding of risks. |
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| There were also syringes, metal and leather gags, electrodes and even a laryngoscope, normally used by doctors to examine patients' airways. |
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| They defend their right to profit from patients' pain, suffering and death with a zealousness that is unmatched in the corporate world. |
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| The general practitioner provided the nurse specialist with a workplace in the practice and was ultimately responsible for patients' care. |
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| He also observed the students learning an aversion to investigating patients' social and psychological problems. |
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| Most attempts to move complex and invasive procedures out of hospital completely and into patients' homes remain marginal. |
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| The drug then reinvigorates patients' anti-tumour immune response and promotes shrinkage of the tumour. |
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| The most important aspect of treating oesophageal pain is a sympathetic appraisal of patients' problems. |
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| Students gain an appreciation for issues that impact on the patients' quality of life and the role of drug therapy in their disease management. |
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| Some patients' choices between using aspirin or a statin may depend on cost as well as their perceived risks of adverse effects. |
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| The company will maintain patients' confidentiality by assigning a numeric code to the donated tissue. |
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| The Missoula sisters' primary goals were providing physical care and attending to their patients' spiritual well-being. |
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| One measure for preventing SSIs has been to remove patients' hair in the surgical field via a safety razor. |
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| Dying patients' rights to information about their condition are often, in practice, poorly protected in the context of terminal care. |
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| Measurement of patients' perceptions of patient centredness provides a marker of the quality of care. |
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| According to patients' self-assessments, various levels of asthma severity were represented in the study group. |
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| There was a push to give doctors better access to their patients' entire medical history and records. |
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| It thus seems unlikely that our results were biased by responses under the patients' control. |
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| Some of these merchants of death even have the audacity to take their patients' temperatures, measure blood pressure, and use a stethoscope. |
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| On the other hand, the physician fearing noncompliance might treat the problem with benign neglect and not monitor patients' renal function. |
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| Far from allowing alcohol on the wards, doctors are finding a four-legged friend expert at taking patients' minds off their aches and pains. |
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| The simple repetition of bland reassurance that fails to address patients' fears is ineffective. |
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| There are medieval scenes of bloodletting, and of doctors cauterising patients' piles, polyps, and even cataracts. |
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| Scans of patients' brains showed that the injured area almost doubled in size following treatment. |
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| Table 1 shows the patients' demographic characteristics, 30 day postoperative mortality, unifactorial and multifactorial analysis. |
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| Within this framework, health care providers should take patients' needs into consideration. |
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| Another reason for upcoding your patients' illnesses is to manipulate reimbursement rules for your patients' benefit. |
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| However, Mr Blanshard said the forum had already identified cleanliness problems surrounding patients' laundry and children's soft toys. |
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| Such patients' insistence that the physician pursue somatic symptoms until a medical diagnosis is obtained can be significantly frustrating. |
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| Low literacy in Haiti contributes to inconsistent spelling of patients' names and addresses. |
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| As evidenced in this article, the wood pulp fibers' mode of transmission into the patients' viscera might have occurred via the airborne route. |
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| Because patients' ability to retain information may be compromised, clear explanations augmented with visual aids could be helpful. |
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| The system allows them to transmit patients' vital signs from an ambulance to hospital so staff could make lifesaving decisions. |
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| They also transplanted hepatocytes into patients' spleens to act as a short-term auxiliary liver. |
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| Most doctors go into areas where changes can still be made to patients' lives, such as surgery or obstetrics and gynaecology. |
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| This could be pioneered in Scotland and patients' rights placed at the heart of the matter. |
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| No antecedents of orchitis, infectious disease, or orchidectomy had been recorded in the patients' histories. |
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| The morning of surgery, a trained patient care assistant clipped patients' hair in their rooms. |
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| It points out how the whole care team can help with such patients' medical and social needs. |
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| Quite honestly, I am sometimes thankful for what I don't know about my patients' lives. |
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| A written informed consent was obtained from patients' surrogates after describing the nature and the purpose of the study. |
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| A fourth element is patients' demand for surgical delivery, a hotly debated issue, especially in Brazil. |
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| Both of the patients' eyes had to be patched, which completely obstructed vision. |
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| It is possible that factors in patients' diet or lifestyle may make them more vulnerable to hypersensitivity reactions to some herbs. |
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| Processes of care were important factors in patients' perceptions of the quality of the care they received. |
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| Statins modify patients' lipid profile and lower their risk of coronary heart disease. |
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| Interviews were semistructured and in-depth, and were carried out in patients' homes. |
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| The plans should remain flexible to accommodate changes in patients' needs and circumstances. |
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| His position on euthanasia grew from a principled view of patients' rights. |
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| They appealed to the lawmakers to pass the bill as soon as possible for the sake of patients' human rights. |
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| Algerian departmental prefects therefore signed contracts with asylums in southern France for their patients' treatment at Algerian expense. |
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| Continuous negative pressure applied to a wound is now an established method for managing patients' wounds in hospital. |
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| Politicians and patients' groups are now demanding to know how health officials managed to get it so wrong. |
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| As the patients' psychogeriatrician I assessed their fitness for discharge. |
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| Previous research neither confirmed nor disconfirmed the existence of a link between teamwork and patients' outcomes. |
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| The enactment of the new Regulation is believed to allow better protection and respect for patients' rights. |
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| She has to write a dissertation on patients' rights for her course in medical law and ethics, at King's College London. |
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| The causative role of that trauma in patients' subsequent distress becomes clear. |
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| Fourthly, patients' distress and their vulnerability to anxiety and depression are lessened. |
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| A little more awareness of your patients' notes would stop you sounding like a complete div. |
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| In addition to damaging patients' health, poor nutrition and the consequent increase in hospital stays may be costing the exchequer millions of pounds each year. |
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| The illness certainly affects a patients' quality of life because they often wake up short-winded, experience severe coughing or are hit by a heavy sensation in the chest. |
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| Under the patients' choice item scheme, the authority hopes to draw up a list of medicines that are available from the hospital dispensaries at current rates. |
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| Doctors noted diagnosis and management in patients' records as usual. |
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| Preoperative assessment of patients' hematological status to identify any coagulation abnormalities or pre-existent anemia can be accomplished readily. |
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| But Dr Fox said the decision to release the patients' details stood in stark contrast to Mr Blair's insistence on protecting the medical confidentiality of his own family. |
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| None of the CF patients' undecalcified biopsy specimens in the present study demonstrated the osteoid parameters characteristic of vitamin D deficiency osteomalacia. |
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| Nurses made certain that the patients' beds were made up with fresh linen and blankets, and they offered sedatives or aspirin to patients who were uncomfortable. |
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| Had he shrunk himself down to the size of a cell and injected himself into sick patients' bodies, to battle mano-a-mano with their disease-causing microbes? |
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| These could include taking the wrong blood for a patient, mislabelling blood samples, and failing properly to check patients' blood groups at the bedside. |
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| I was disappointed to see very few contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings. |
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| The study tested for micro-organisms in the devices used to wash out patients' mouths and remove debris after their teeth have been drilled or cleaned. |
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| The government's working group on chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis wove patients' assertions into the scientific research in its report. |
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| On the contrary, patients' reports of magnetic sensations were thenceforward written off as being among the odd things that hysterical patients sometimes say. |
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| According to Illich, doctors had medicalized various aspects of life, including ageing, death, pain, patients' expectations, and healing and preventive therapies. |
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| I never expected to be treated like this and I just think that a doctor who takes the Hippocratic oath has to act in his patients' best interests. |
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| The bitter dispute which has put patients' lives at risk surrounds the basic pay allowance for radiographers to work on-call from 5pm to 9am and during the weekends. |
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| Tolerance of long waiting times, lack of information, uncommunicative staff, and failures to seek patients' views and take account of their preferences is wearing thin. |
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| Scant interest has been shown in it by our governing bodies, the royal colleges, the General Medical Council, or organisations involved in patients' safety. |
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| For instance, could we review the philosophy and content of preregistration education so that it privileges primary care and listens to patients' concerns? |
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| A recent survey of nurses and respiratory therapists indicated that just over half of respondents suctioned patients' mouths after each episode of endotracheal suctioning. |
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| The nurse practitioners obtained patients' medical histories and did physical examinations preoperatively, ordered laboratory tests, and taught patients about what to expect. |
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| The health commissioner's role was envisaged as negotiating and mediating complaints and grievances of patients and heightening professional understanding of patients' rights. |
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| Making appreciable impact on the quality of patients' lives with relatively small interventions will always be one of the joys of working in palliative medicine. |
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| Conversely, in wealthier countries the overprescription of antibiotics to meet patients' demands and overuse of antimicrobials in food production is adding to the problem. |
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| No legislation allows that drugs can be concealed in the patients' food. |
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| We value the study of adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine far above the study of childhood diarrhoea, Chagas' disease, community health, and patients' decision making. |
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| Never again can the old-boy network be allowed to protect useless doctors at the expense of patients' lives. |
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| Doctors and other medical staff are overworked, risk burnout and patients' lives are at risk. |
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| Because of this task, surgeons were deft at removing arrowheads from their patients' bodies. |
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| However, removal of the jaw bone had serious effects on patients' ability to eat, leading to further health concerns including malnutrition. |
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| After the operation and during their stay in the recovery room, analgesia with intravenous morphine 5 mg was provided at the patients' request. |
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| Study investigators reviewed the patients' medical records to see if the subjects had been given any anorectal defecation testing. |
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| Gram staining was conducted on 3 patients' pleural effusion but none of them showed positive results. |
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| Our courts have recognised the moral and legal duty of healthcare practitioners to keep their patients' HIV status confidential. |
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| A project providing gynaecology services closer to patients' homes on Tyneside has gained national recognition. |
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| Without a careful evaluation of patients' hands and feet, the condition is often diagnosed as fever blisters, herpes, or herpangina. |
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| However, the overall count of free HIV in the patients' bloodstreams changed little. |
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| In my initial experiences with the ACCLARENT AERA, the device enabled me to safely and successfully dilate my patients' Eustachian tubes. |
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| The vectors will need to survive in patients' bloodstreams and dispense genetic material after they enter a target cell. |
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| Relevant characteristics of the participants, such as age and the diameter of their visual field, were extracted from the patients' files. |
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| Anti-clotting or thrombolytic drugs save lives and speed patients' recovery by breaking down the blood clots which cause heart attacks. |
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| Interviews were done on the day of patients' clinic visit by a psychiatrist, blinded to thymic status. |
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| Additionally, researchers assessed patients' bone marrow myeloblast counts. |
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| A version of the Chocolate platform, Chocolate PTCA, is also approved by FDA to treat patients' coronary arteries. |
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| The team used an immunomagnetic separation system to isolate circulating tumour cells from patients' blood at three time points. |
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| Gold's team sampled the air above patients' fazes during surgeries, the place where an anesthesiologist usually works. |
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| Convergence dysfunction was defined by patients' near point of convergence amplitude. |
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| The syndrome itself is evident in patients' symptoms which are directly associated with the digits the median nerve innervates. |
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| Chan said that he has occasionally asked neuropathologists to guess diabetic patients' ages after being shown their MRI films. |
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| The first of the three research notes are dispensing medicines that are contraindicative to the patients' chronic disease. |
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| The PCT's proposal would mean district nurses co-ordinating their patients' care with social services as well as NHS healthcare providers. |
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| Early studies examining OSA patients' use of CPAP suggest that nonadherence to the treatment is a significant problem. |
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| The clinical trials in these instances used inactivated viruses as vectors to shuffle genes into patients' cells. |
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| Replacements for some diabetics' missing insulin-producing cells might be found in the patients' own pancreases, a new study in mice suggests. |
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| We describe our experience with endoscopic ligation of the sphenopalatine artery in the treatment of severe posterior epistaxis in 2 patients' with coagulopathy. |
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| Since dentistry, or oral medicine, and eating are so closely linked, it is important for dentists to pay attention to their patients' nutritional status. |
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| For patient-caregiver relationships, this enables the caregiver to transformationally go beyond expressed wants and become more attentive to patients' deeper needs. |
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| And as well as practicing her effleurage and petrissage, Bethan also learnt a number of bespoke techniques to relieve tension from her patients' lower spines. |
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| Danish national patients' registries were searched for cases of celiac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis, which is closely related to celiac disease. |
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| They believe that drug called spironolactone offers a cheap and safe way to ease patients' suffering without any dangerous side-effects, the Daily Express reported. |
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| Birmingham magistrates heard how Beard qualified as a denturist in Canada in 1997 and is allowed to make dentures, but not to fit them into patients' mouths. |
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| System provides the only complete assessment of patients' redox status and enables identification of a broad variety of disorders where redox is implicated. |
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| Developed by German engineers, the Allegretto Wave system maintains the natural shape of patients' corneas, resulting in sharper vision both in daylight and dim conditions. |
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| In group A, patients' zygotes were immediately cryopreserved, while the zygotes of group B couples were kept in culture medium for a subsequent 72 hr. |
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| Promoting psychic surgery for cancer is, of course, not a rational social choice, but some attention to the religious aspect of patients' lives may well be genuinely helpful. |
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| The researchers compared North Carolina Medicaid patients' resource utilization before and after initiating controller therapy with montelukast or fluticasone propionate. |
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| We believe oral delivery of GCD has the potential to improve patients' quality of life without compromising the efficacy or safety of the treatment. |
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