patient need
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpatientandneed
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patient
adjective
uk/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/us/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/
having ...
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need
noun
uk/niːd/us/niːd/
the state of having to have something that you do not have, especially something that you must have so that you can have a ...
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(Definition ofpatientandneedfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Does thepatientneeddiuretics?
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The aim of delegating routine or assessedpatientneedwas not always easy to achieve.
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Issues around the delegatee, the delegator,patientneedand structural factors were strongly influential.
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It is therefore possible to assume that different workers may constructpatientneeddifferently.
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Onpatientneed, equity, supplier-induced demand, and the need to assess the outcome of common medical practices.
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The trial was pragmatic in that the intervention could be varied in content and duration according to individualpatientneed.
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We would expect medicines for chronic conditions to be collected regularly and medicines for symptomatic relief to be collected according topatientneed.
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Such a public process will also need to consider how to balance these two morally relevant criteria ofpatientneedand probable success.
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If reimbursement for medical procedures were decreased, physicians would perform the same number of procedures, since performance of procedures is based uponpatientneed. 15.
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The points assigned to these various factors thus reflect value judgments about the relative importance ofpatientneed, probability of success, and waiting time.
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Nopatientneedwait even as long as six months.
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The only judgment will be one ofpatientneed.
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If we are serious about providing cost-effective services that are defined bypatientneedrather than current resources, flexible working within existing services is clearly necessary.
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Even a cursory examination, however, will show that it is not necessarily, nor even generally,patientneedthat drives the many elements of the entire health-care industry.
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What will ultimately govern the use of new technologies is the ethics (if they exist) of healthcare institutions and individual practitioners, as well aspatientneed.
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The first type of delegation practice was primarily determined by who is available, rather than who is the most appropriate worker to respond to thispatientneed.
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Here is a time when physicians, family, andpatientneedto examine how goals may be achieved even if the means of pursuing them may change.
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Responsiveness topatientneedis a principle which runs right through the health service.
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Now, nopatientneedwait a day longer than six months.
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The medical and nursing staff are first class; nopatientneedbe worried on that account.
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Yet doctors who come from different professional, cultural, and social backgrounds and hold different beliefs and values can hardly be expected to guarantee equity through objective assessment ofpatientneed.
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While the majority of studies indicate that this form of assessment is reliable in identifyingpatientneed, some research highlights its failure to take account of patient and client perspectives.
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The guidelines will be consumer based and the pattern of pharmaceutical services must reflect changing patterns ofpatientneed.
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