Sentence examples for scarce patients from inspiring English sources

This test option is attractive because urine is a sterile and easily obtainable biological fluid that can be assayed even in sputum scarce patients.

In areas where resources are scarce, patients are often not given supplemental intraoperative analgesia.

3 of 22 (13.6 %) sputum scarce patients were on ARVs at the time of enrollment compared to 21 of 90 (23.3 %) of sputum productive patients.

We screened all smear negative/sputum scarce patients who underwent bronchoscopy as part of their work up for suspected pulmonary tuberculosis at Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Kuils River Hospital during the period from January 2013 to April 2014, and retrospectively included all patients with complete sets of medical, radiological and laboratory data.

Moreover, where resources are scarce, patient-based oral health outcomes can help ensure that services are directed at the conditions most likely to negatively impact OHRQoL.

Sputum-scarce patients (n = 22, 21.5 %) required sputum induction to produce sample.

Sputum-scarce patients had a lower median CD4 count than sputum productive patients (55 versus 122; p = 0.021).

FOB constitutes an interesting alternative for TB diagnosis in smear-negative or sputum-scarce patients, especially in developed countries where this procedure is widely available.

Dr. Eileen Farnon, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, "This is a difficult topic, because organs are really scarce and patients who need a transplant are typically quite ill and need a transplant quickly, and sometimes it's hard to do all the testing that one could possibly think of for all the infections out there".

Adequate outcome measures are scarce for patients who have lost ambulation.

Specifically, data are scarce for patients in whom renal function temporarily decreases and returns to baseline at 3 days after surgery.