Sentence examples similar to confusing patient from inspiring English sources

• To the Editor: Gary Taubes is waging a campaign against scientific notions that are far behind the times and in the process is confusing patients, perhaps into making dangerous decisions about their therapy.

Physical examination showed an obese, confused patient with generalized petechiae and hepatomegaly.

The purpose of this study was to describe behaviors associated with acute confusion (AC) in hospitalized patients and to determine whether acutely confused patients experience more adverse outcomes compared with their nonconfused counterparts.

Downplaying the value of palliative care will confuse patients and do them a disservice.

Boulanger came to believe that this was a ploy to confuse patients.

But many dermatologists now offer both medical treatment and beauty procedures, which can confuse patients.

The British Medical Association, the doctors' union, criticised the bandings exercise as "simplistic", potentially misleading and likely to confuse patients.

Some doctors are worried that restating the public health message about mammography, in particular, will just confuse patients.

This crazy-quilt pattern confuses patients about the costs they will have to pay and almost certainly complicates and drives up the costs of administering the program.

"Publishing data with no context about a GP practice before inspectors have even arrived will at best confuse patients and at worst mislead them," said Dr Richard Vautrey, deputy chair of the BMA's GPs committee.

Headlines that extrapolate from one cell culture study and use causal language won't make these decisions any easier and if anything are more likely to confuse patients and their physicians.