Definition of "patients" []

• Plural form of patient. (noun)

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• "Director General Amano said that, "the IAEA is working to improve outcomes for cancer patients in the developing world and this concert is very meaningful in helping to lift patients´ spirits and make more people aware of IAEA´s PACT activities.""
• "Findings from the Diabetes Impact Survey † indicate that healthcare practitioners (HCPs) thought they and their peers were more likely in recent years to prescribe additional therapies at an earlier stage in a patient's treatment regimen. 1 However, according to HCPs surveyed, less than 50\% of their patients are achieving their target HbA1c ‡ goal2 and a survey of patients§ indicated that 40\% reported complications associated with their disease. 3 HCPs surveyed estimated that significantly more of the national diabetes budget is being allocated to treatment of diabetic complications than to prevention. 4 These survey results were released today in conjunction with the upcoming World Diabetes Day on 14th November."
• "In the House of Representatives, they passed a bill which they called the patients 'bill of rights which did not guarantee a single, solitary thing I just described to you, and left 100 million Americans out of what little it did provide."