Sentences with phrase «number of patients remaining»

Data were extracted on number of patients remaining in contact with psychiatric services, extent of psychiatric hospital admissions, clinical and social outcomes, and costs.

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Whereas nonaggressive patients once remained in the family or moved into another normal community specially equipped for adopting a certain number of the mentally ill, today we lock them up except when practical obstacles (mainly financial) discourage us from doing so.

Despite a nationwide drop in abortions, Planned Parenthood's rates remain steady as it gains market share; meanwhile, the number of patients seen annually has dropped from 3 million to 2.4 million since 2008, due to fewer women coming in for other services, according to the NRLC report, which is based on numbers from Planned Parenthood, the affiliated Guttmacher Institute, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In patients who have undergone chemotherapy and radiation, a small number of cancer cells can remain in the bloodstream and allow the malignancy to recur.

Following the study of several hundred patients, there remained a small number in whom only one mutation could be found in MMACHC.

The overall in - hospital complication rate significantly decreased in patients without a comorbidity, or with a small number of comorbidities, for spinal fusion and TKR; and remained stable in those without a comorbidity, or with a small number of comorbidities, for THR in the 80 and older patient group.

The existence of cancer stem cells has already been reported in a number of human cancers, explains Professor Jacobsen, but previous findings have remained controversial since the lab tests used to establish the identity of cancer stem cells have been shown to be unreliable and, in any case, do not reflect the «real situation» in an intact tumour in a patient.

«We were disappointed to see only a modest reduction in the number of untreated patients, which remained unacceptably high,» he said.

A reduced number of chemotherapy cycles (n = 1 — 5) were delivered to the remaining 24 patients due to poor performance status in 6, toxicity in 9 and early progression in 8 patients.

«As part of the currently aging population of the United States, the number of patients with heart failure is continuing to steadily increase, yet there remains a relative shortage of donor hearts — there simply aren't enough donor hearts available each year for each person who may benefit from transplantation,» said Dr. S. Jacob Scheinerman.

The gestational age can be calculated using the current date and the patients Dating Calculator: To find the percent of Carbon 14 remaining after a given number of years, type in the number of years and click on Calculate.

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