1.   An essential ingredient of this is the ability to categorise each patient by disease type or treatment group.

2.   Nurses can help these patients by first observing tactfully whether or not they can read and write.

3.   The hospital now refers to patients by name, not case number.

4.   The doctor anesthetized the patient by an intravenous injection.

5.   The aetiology of liver failure was assessed by clinical history, and by serologic markers of hepatitis B, hepatitis delta, and hepatitis A.

6.   One patient had stones cleared at a third stage, two patients had the remaining fragments removed at cholecystoscopy, and one patient by percutaneous cholecystolithotomy.

7.   We therefore reviewed all patients by personal interview where possible.

8.   The reproducibility of blood flow measurements performed in this way was assessed in separate patients by performing successive recordings at a single location.

9.   He says the new set-up will benefit patients by cutting administration costs and freeing more money for health care.

10.   CHESTER Health Authority has increased spending on patients by two per cent.