An important difference is that the Canadian definition excludes patients with symptoms of mental illness.

We excluded patients with carcinoma sutch or tumours at diagnosis.

In fact, in a footnote, it explains that the data exclude patients "from whom there was a probable lab error."

Transplant centers, he said, are loath to disclose why they exclude patients but the reasons are many.

This does not completely exclude patients from vaccination, it just postpones the time of vaccination until the illness has improved.

Exhaustive microbiological analysis were performed in order to exclude patients with gastrointestinal infection.

Dr. Levenson said that "justice would seem to call for the same criteria everywhere" in excluding patients from transplant lists.

The following conditions will always exclude patients for treatment:

Although the hospital was intended particularly for the treatment of eye diseases, it was soon found impracticable to exclude patients suffering from other maladies.

Another potential problem that has received little attention is whether health professionals would exclude infected patients from their practice.