Sentence examples for a minimum treatment duration from inspiring English sources

Overall, a minimum treatment duration of six months is recommended.

To make sense out of this reasoning, one would expect a minimum treatment duration of three weeks.

In a meta-analysis of seven randomized, controlled studies with a minimum treatment duration of 52 weeks in type-2 diabetic patients and no heart failure at baseline incident heart failure was rare (about1%) and there was a trend towards a reduced incidence of heart failure with acarbose (HR 0.55 (95%CI 0.21-1.45) [ 59].

The planned minimum treatment duration was 8 weeks.

Defining the minimum treatment duration needs further longer-term studies.

The minimum treatment duration was 4 weeks; the minimum patient number was ten.

The patient was treated with intravenous ceftazidime and oral cotrimoxazole at the minimum treatment duration recommended for melioidosis (1 – 5 ).

This represents 100% compliance to the bisphosphonate therapy for 3 years – the minimum treatment duration as recommended by most guidelines worldwide – in 9 of 10 patients.

It is unknown which regimen is best suited and best tolerated, what is the optimum dose and the minimum treatment duration to ensure sustained eradication and not only suppression of the ESBL-positive organisms in the gut.

However, because patients may have shorter treatment duration in the clinical setting, we also considered patients who completed at least 80% of the expected minimum treatment duration to have completed therapy, in line with previous studies concerning HCV treatment duration (i.e. 38.4 weeks for genotype 1 or 4 and 19.2 weeks for genotype 2 or 3) 25, 25.

In view of the primary objective of the trial, this efficacy population was modified a posteriori to exclude both untreated patients and those who took study medication for less than 4 months (< 105 days), i.e. the minimum treatment duration for clinically sound assessment of letrozole efficacy with respect to tumor shrinkage.