'alternative dosing' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a different dosage or amount of a medication or other treatment that may be prescribed or suggested. For example, "The doctor suggested an alternative dosing plan for the medication."
To describe the pattern of sexual attempts by men with erectile dysfunction (ED) taking tadalafil 20 mg on demand or on an alternative dosing regimen, 3 times/week, and to assess changes in sexual behavior when the patients were exposed to the alternative regimen.
DGD at physician's discretion is a optional alternative dosing schedule in which G-CSF is given only to accelerate WBC recovery once this had begun (>200/μL), and if subsequent increases to levels required for discharge (ANC >500/μL) did not follow within 48 hrs.
However, the off-label use of HIV-labelled lamivudine would require an alternative dosing regimen by administration on alternating days and/or by dividing the pills, which we consider impractical in reality.
Alternative dosing schedules of SN38-TS NPs were compared to irinotecan.
Objective(s): The authors have developed an alternative dosing schedule for tranexamic acid that incorporates the effects of renal function on tranexamic acid concentrations.
Alternative dosing procedures should be investigated, and process blank preparation and biotesting should be standardized.
If bone-directed symptoms recur during pauses of anticancer drug treatment, an alternative dose regimen should be considered (continuous therapy or shortening of the drug-free interval).
Eligible subjects were randomized (1 1) to treat 1 attack with DFN-11 and matching placebo autoinjector consecutively or 2 DFN-11 autoinjectors consecutively and a second attack similarly but with the alternative dose (3 mg or 6 mg).
Alternative dosing-schedules of TMZ, such as the one-week-on/on-week off schedule showed promising results in the past [ 15]; only recently, results from a phase II study were released with a progression-free rate of 43% at 6 months [ 16]; median progression-free survival was 24 weeks, and median overall survival 38 weeks.
Results were also consistent when we used an alternative dose conversion algorithm.
If a patient uses a different dose regimen at start, an alternative dose reduction strategy is used.
