> one in eight of patients dies in the same period Another nuanced and striking peculiarity of the English language that writers for this international paper m

> one in eight of patients dies in the same period Another nuanced and striking peculiarity of the English language that writers for this international paper may not have mastered yet! "Eight of them" is grammatically unremarkable. "Eight of the patients" and "eight patients" are also unremarkable, although slightly different in meaning. "Eight of patients" is jarring. It sounds like "four of clubs."