The phrase "avoid patients" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in a medical or healthcare context when advising against interaction or treatment of patients under certain circumstances.
Example: "In this situation, it is best to avoid patients who are showing symptoms of the flu to prevent the spread of illness."
Alternatives: "steer clear of patients" or "refrain from engaging with patients.".
Its main objective was to establish protocols and citizens advice lines that would avoid patients with mild influenza-A symptoms going to health centre.
Sitting on a wall outside the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, where visitors are ordered to wear face masks and avoid patients with flulike symptoms, one Aboriginal mother said she feared for her children.
Ahmed said improvements were also required regarding discharge arrangements, to avoid patients staying in hospital longer than necessary, and said ringfencing of beds for high dependency care should be considered.
Ahmed said improvements were also required regarding discharge arrangements, to avoid patients staying in hospital longer than necessary, and called for ring-fencing of beds for high dependency care to be considered.
Despite numerous attempts to develop a reliable depth of anesthesia (DoA) index to avoid patients' intraoperative awareness during surgery, designing an accurate DoA index is a grand challenge in anesthesia research.
It is reorganising which wards handle what types of patients in order to avoid patients admitted as medical emergencies having to "sleep out" – spend the night in wards that are unsuited to caring for their needs, notably those full of surgical patients – or cancel operations due to a lack of beds.
Waiting times increase and the nurses have to work to their limits trying to avoid patient breaches (over the four-hour wait).
The manufacturer recommends periodic testing for probe alignment, and awareness of this potential problem may help other users avoid patient injury with this type of ultrasound transducer.
Thus, our questionnaire may have benefited from additional validation tests but we have deliberately eliminated validation against direct interview to avoid patient-to-doctor-bias.
A 4-stage suite of patient information sheets (PISs) was developed to avoid patient overload.
Generally the SHIs wish to avoid patient numbers, hence costs, spiralling out of control.
