Sentence examples for administered inappropriate from inspiring English sources

With regard to treatment, many patients, in the course of the long diagnostic work-up of their CH, were administered inappropriate therapies (quite often invasive and irreversible, i.e. dental procedures and ENT surgery).

In so doing, we found the mortality rate to be much higher among culture-positive patients who were administered inappropriate antibiotics than culture-negative patients (55.5% versus 35.9%).

Regulatory authorities have finally decided to force change on a series of archaic practices, where poorly qualified "experts" administer inappropriate advice to the unwitting and are paid billions in commission to sell potentially harmful products.

Clinicians must therefore be aware of the common organisms associated with both early-onset and late-onset VAP in their own hospitals if they are to avoid administering inappropriate initial therapy.

The most recent Surviving Sepsis Guidelines recommend empiric combination therapy targeting Gram-negative bacteria, particularly for patients with known or suspected Pseudomonas infections, as a means to decrease the likelihood of administering inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy [ 16].

For one, with the multitude of different antibacterial regimens used, the benefit of an appropriate antibacterial regimen could have been statistically outweighed by the detriment of being administered an inappropriate regimen.

Thus, PEP is often administered under inappropriate circumstances [ 6, 7].

A study in the USA involving 88 transfusions of cryoprecipitate in 51 patients found that 20% of cryoprecipitate used during the study period was administered for inappropriate indications.

Decision-making about teacher accountability using broadly administered tests is inappropriate.

Empirical cefotaxime administered without aminoglycosides was inappropriate in two (66.7%%) of three episodes; however, fever disappeared 2 days after cefotaxime therapy, and second urine cultures became sterile in both cases.

In contrast, similar to the majority of studies in the literature [ 4], our study defined the administered antibiotics to be inappropriate only if they did not match the in vitro susceptibility of the identified pathogens, that is, only in culture-positive patients.