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The phrase "a third of patients" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistics or findings related to a specific group of patients in a medical or research context.
Example: "In the study, a third of patients reported experiencing side effects from the medication."
Alternatives: "one-third of patients" or "33% of patients".
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"Roughly a third of patients will remain cancer free for a long time," Dr. Choti said.
In more than a third of patients, they skipped at least one.
Estimates vary widely from fewer than a third of patients to more than three-quarters.
A third of patients discharged from New Hampshire Hospital are readmitted.
About a third of patients said their condition was "much improved" by bupropion.
A third of patients (33%) said they were left confused about whether the symptoms and feelings they had were "normal".
Our research suggests that, typically, up to a third of patients don't need to be in hospital.
From that, he concluded that about a third of patients get better simply from taking a dummy pill.
A third of patients die while waiting for suitable lungs to become available from donors.
Up to a third of patients with MS had an anxiety disorder, while the figure ranged between 18% and 35% for stroke patients.
Yet Dr. Birkmeyer's study finds that fully a third of patients have the operation at hospitals doing four or fewer such surgeries in a year.
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