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The phrase "administered or not" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing whether something has been given or applied, often in contexts related to medication, treatment, or procedures.
Example: "The patient will be monitored closely to determine if the medication was effective, administered or not."
Alternatives: "given or not" or "provided or not".
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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.
The 533 gene probes clustered according to whether tPA was administered or not.
After seven days tumor bearing mice (n = 12) were administered or not a MPA depot [ 64, 65].
The largest flux control coefficient was found for pyruvate carboxylase, regardless of whether glucagon was administered or not.
We retrospectively investigated the prognostic outcomes following nephroureterectomy in patients administered or not administered ACEIs or ARBs.
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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).
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).
Analysis of CSF in meningitis may allow discriminating ABM from AVM and guide the decision to administer (or not) antibiotics [ 6, 7].
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.
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