The phrase "alone discontinued" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that has been discontinued without any accompanying items or support, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The product was alone discontinued, leaving customers without alternatives."
Alternatives: "discontinued on its own" or "discontinued by itself".
In MTOPS, 27% on doxazosin alone discontinued, compared with 24% on finasteride and 18% on combination therapy (McConnell et al 2003).
A retrospective cohort study of primary care patients in Germany found that 50% of patients treated with ERN alone discontinued therapy after the first prescription, and only 22% of patients continued treatment for a full year [ 22].
Patients receiving a TNFi agent before baseline (as monotherapy or combined with nonbiologic DMARDs) replaced it with tocilizumab; patients receiving DMARDs alone added tocilizumab to their regimens; and patients receiving a TNFi agent alone discontinued it and initiated tocilizumab monotherapy.
But that's unkind to say.' (P7, male, 77 years, living alone, discontinued participation) 'I know what a healthy diet is.
The difference with [the former nurse] was huge; she was in really close contact with you.' (P12, female, 81 years, living alone, discontinued participation) 'Those youngsters, they might be nice people but not someone to begin a conversation with.
I know we talked about it, and I took note of it, but I knew it already.' (P7, male, 77 years, living alone, discontinued participation) 'Well, because of those conversations [with the nurse] probably, but I heard it from outside too, of course.
Five patients continued treatment with gemcitabine alone after discontinuing oxaliplatin.
In Mozambique, this stand-alone approach was discontinued in 2007 and HIV services were progressively integrated into the public health sector.
Patients could receive everolimus alone (if trastuzumab was discontinued early because of toxicity) or with trastuzumab until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity occurred.
At the earliest analysis (median 33-month follow-up), it was determined that the combination arm was not significantly different from tamoxifen alone, and the arm was discontinued with no further follow-up of this population of patients (n = 3125).
By the time the Tagora was discontinued, only about 20,000 had been built; by comparison, over 116,000 Peugeot 505s and 74,000 Citroën CXs were made in 1981 alone.
