Sentence examples for bulk of patients from inspiring English sources

With the average age of patients about 70, most of the high-dose curative strategies exclude the bulk of patients affected by the disease.

Volume overload is an obvious contraindication to hypertonic saline therapy, but the great bulk of patients managed for profound, symptomatic hyponatremia usually display normal or diminished ECFV.

But of course the result of centralising specialist hospital care, while attempting to ensure a large bulk of patients use hospitals less is that some services will have to go.

Development is a stage of better balance between needs and available resources and will typically be the stage where the bulk of patients receive treatment and are transported off the incident ground.

Harlan Krumholz, M.D., Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Yale School of Medicine and a Forbes.com contributor, also adopts the position that this study reinforces the concept that the bulk of patients with negative evaluations in the ED can be safely discharged home.

However, it should again be emphasized that the bulk of patients selected for those studies were recruited in the 1970 ies and early 1980 ies. Thus, their psychopathology most likely was different from "modern" patients with various types of "depression spectrum disease".

As managed care has bulldozed its way through hospitals, these are the people who have held down the front lines, providing the bulk of patient care, suddenly forced to ration not just time but also empathy.

Since nursing care contributes to the bulk of patient care, it is important to identify nursing-sensitive patient outcomes, hereafter referred to as 'nursing outcomes', that will be useful in the evaluation of nursing care.

In order to investigate whether CSCs could represent either prognostic or predictive biomarkers an alterative approach to their identification must be sought, preferably in formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tumor material which represents the bulk of patient tumor samples and clinical trial archives.

The bulk of the patients would be seen individually by the physicians in the practice and even short stay patients recovering from an acute episode but for whom a return to home is planned, could be seen by the practice in their role as the "SNFist" or, what some observers have termed the "Post acute care hospitalist".

However, the main bulk of these patients approach these facilities by themselves, are referred by other physicians or visit on the recommendation of other patients' or their own relatives [ 17].