I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coma patient
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a long-term coma patient
a stroke patient/victim
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Some stroke victims recover fully.
customer/patient/voter etc satisfaction (= among customers/patients/voters etc )
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Staff work as a team to achieve customer satisfaction.
high-risk patients/groups etc
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cancer screening for women over 55 and other high-risk groups
long-stay patient/resident
patient care (= care of someone who is ill )
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The changes should lead to better patient care.
private patient
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elderly
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It is scandalous that elderly patients should be treated in that way.
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Medicaid finances health care for poor families, many of the disabled and many elderly nursing home patients .
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These result suggest that most elderly patients have some difficulty in making the best use of eye-drops.
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The higher death rate in women than in men is probably because of the higher proportion of elderly patients among them.
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However, it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services.
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By 1948, however, Cosin was pointing out that the idea that most elderly patients were untreatable was a misconception.
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More intensive rehabilitation activities with chronic and elderly patients were ruled out.
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Dieulafoy's lesion is a disease of mainly middle aged and elderly male patients .
ill
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Another possible contributory factor is the increasing difficulty in admitting acutely ill patients .
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Meanwhile, he stayed his order to close the clinic that would have disrupted treatment of 350 terminally ill patients .
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Halmi etal, found a lifetime prevalence of 68% for major depression in a sample of severely ill anorexia nervosa patients .
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Critically ill patients such as Lucky normally receive transplanted livers from a parent.
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It will be the first journal to make immediately available findings that could save or extend the lives of critically ill patients .
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These very ill patients will usually be seen in an emergency room or hospital setting.
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It has also been suggested that complex ventricular arrhythmias carry a worse prognosis in patients with non Q wave infarcts.
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They represent a group of terminally ill patients and their doctors.
■ NOUN
aids
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We tried to find out whether reactivation of T gondii in AIDS patients induces similar antibody secretion.
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Today, like many other public hospitals that once took polio patients , it houses many AIDS patients.
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In the early days there was no cure and it killed AIDS patients the first time they got it.
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Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.
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During 1992 twice as many new carriers or AIDS patients were diagnosed as in 1991.
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There is a promising precedent, giving hope to AIDS patients .
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The typical AIDS patient comes into his office at least once a month, needing tests, treatments, even hospitalization.
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Like many AIDS patients , Pieters swallows the drug combo to help his body suppress the virus day after day.
cancer
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Other cancer patients have felt similarly driven to do something to make a difference for other people with the same illness.
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Then they studied blood and tissue samples from 211 Ashkenazim who had been colon cancer patients .
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However, some organisations have developed special diets which they suggest will help cancer patients .
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The quick, new, high-dose radiation Brachytherapy for cancer patients is also performed at the hospital.
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It was bizarre, surrealistic, a little enclave of cancer patients in a noisy, crowded bar.
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Dedicated nineteenth-century physicians working with cancer patients had none of the sophisticated instruments and devices we have today.
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You wouldn't quarantine cancer patients , would you?
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In a study of terminal cancer patients , the positive response was even higher.
■ VERB
help
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The rationalization is that it helps patients .
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What kind of statements and questions are useful in helping patients toward the task appropriate in the Dying Time?
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Even with these advances I am sure that diabetic care will focus on helping patients to care for themselves effectively.
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Counselors are also available to help patients with ongoing issues that may have become unmanageable as a result of their illness.
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Nurses can help these patients by first observing tactfully whether or not they can read and write.
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And then helping patients move toward it.
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However, this would not help Alzheimer's patients , whose cells actually deteriorate during the disease.
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It is entirely legitimate to criticize the modern hospital system strongly so as to help patients function better within it.
treat
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Opposition is most fierce in states such as California that have already found ways to curb the cost of treating Medicaid patients .
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She says they treat all patients they same, as long as they pay.
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The line between legal and illegal is very fine for doctors treating dying patients .
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What does this mean and should we be treating these patients ?
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Have you seen how some therapists treat their patients ?
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The Government claims National Health Service dentists overspent their budget last year by treating more patients than it'd estimated.
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They plan to treat around fifty patients a week, for the next month.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at-risk children/patients/groups etc
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First, that it detects the affected or at-risk groups, and second that these can then be referred for suitable treatment.
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Other potential strategies include the provision of vitamin A supplements to at-risk groups.
fee-paying student/patient
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clinical trials show that some patients with breast cancer do better if they take the drug for five years after surgery.
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He gave a half million pound donation towards the care of AIDs patients.
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St Dominic's Hospital treats about 10,000 patients a year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A comprehensive review of the patient can be achieved through the use of the care plan.
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Although these patients usually have astonishingly good morale and fighting spirit, everything humanely possible should be done to keep it up.
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In all five patients under 50 creatinine values returned to normal.
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One out of every seven plastic surgery patients is a man.
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Other patients had external haemorrhoids, though less serious.
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San Mateo County officials already are looking into the prospects for their patients.
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The patients also are examined, and undergo laboratory tests, based on their complaints.
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The outcome of these patients is uncertain and the advisability of restorative proctocolectomy is, therefore, controversial.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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We're more patient , too.
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We have to be disciplined enough to be more patient .
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I wished I had been more patient and stayed at the witchdoctor's.
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She takes the time to be more patient and is in less of a hurry.
very
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Everyone who uses it has been very patient .
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Nervous and jumpy, he was not very patient with Miss Tish when she came home from the hospital.
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You need to be very patient in trying to convince him to see a doctor.
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She was very patient but we'd lost time.
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The panel members appeared to him to be very patient , very fair, and very thorough.
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You need to be very patient while they are absorbing the facts, perhaps over several days or weeks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Halle was patient , waiting for the boy to finish his explanation.
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I'm sure she'll write soon. Just try to be patient .
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The audience waited patiently for the show to begin.
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The long and patient struggle to achieve equal rights will continue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the box office, which is occupied by two women with patient smiles, they blame the trains.
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She takes the time to be more patient and is in less of a hurry.