It would be hard to find patients who consider a mild stroke unimportant.

Breast cancer clinical trials had begun several years before, in 1990, but struggled to find patients.

Researchers often complain that they cannot find enough patients for clinical research, in part because Medicare reimbursement is uncertain.

A team of health workers based in Corona fan out through the borough to find and treat patients.

Surgeons and other specialists win because the tests find extra patients for them.

The company recognized that doctors involved in its study of a hypertension medication were having trouble finding qualified patients.

Currently, many researchers cannot find enough patients to volunteer for studies that determine whether treatments work.

In the United States, companies have to advertise heavily to find patients.

Research in 2005 found patients only experienced symptoms when they themselves initiated the challenge tests.

The company said it was hard to find clinical patients with the right profile who were willing to risk participating in a double placebo-based trial.