The phrase "administer or not" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a decision needs to be made about whether to provide or apply something, such as medication or a procedure.
Example: "The doctor had to decide whether to administer the treatment or not based on the patient's condition."
Alternatives: "provide or not" or "give or not".
For making simple diagnoses, causes or effect are predictive (you can diagnose a cold by observing that a patient is coughing), but to cure, you need to understand causes (you need to know whether this is a bacterial infection to administer or not the right antibiotic).
Analysis of CSF in meningitis may allow discriminating ABM from AVM and guide the decision to administer (or not) antibiotics [ 6, 7].
As a matter of fact, recommendations to administer, or not administer, an intervention, should be based on trade-offs between benefits and risks, burden and, where possible, costs.
Patients and tumour characteristics were analysed to evaluate their influence on the decision to administer or not adjuvant chemotherapy (Table 4).
A multivariate analysis conducted to evaluate the influence of patient and tumour characteristics on the decision to administer or not adjuvant chemotherapy in pT1a-pT1b breast cancers, showed that younger age, grading G3, high proliferative index, ER-negative status and HER2-positive status were significantly associated with the decision to administer adjuvant chemotherapy.
The decision to administer or not to administer a treatment against some disease is frequently based on an estimated probability p i that an individual i has the disease (or – in a prognostic setting – will develop the disease), typically obtained using a prediction model in the broadest sense.
To compare, in horses undergoing laparotomy for colic, the effects of administering or not administering a loading intravenous (IV) bolus of lidocaine prior to its constant rate infusion (CRI).
It was also recorded the use of defibrillators (manual or automatic external defibrillator) before the arrival of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation team, regardless of whether shock was administered or not.
At a number of trial sites, some or all PRO measures were improperly administered or not administered at all during the baseline visit; for this reason, baseline PRO scores from 94 acute phase sample patients (13.1%) were not usable for analysis.
We retrospectively investigated the prognostic outcomes following nephroureterectomy in patients administered or not administered ACEIs or ARBs.
The 533 gene probes clustered according to whether tPA was administered or not.
