The phrase "an intermediate option" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing choices or alternatives that fall between two extremes or levels.
Example: "In our analysis, we found that an intermediate option could provide a balance between cost and quality."
Alternatives: "a middle option" or "a moderate choice".
A former high school wide receiver, Polk catches the ball with his hands and demonstrates strong concentration in coverage as well as good skills as an intermediate option in the passing game.
Intra-articular hyaluronic acid (HA) injection is an intermediate option between analgesics and knee joint replacement in patients with osteoarthritis (OA).
"Targeted resource enhancement" offers an intermediate option, which tries to improve the fit of the individual and the environment with a range of restricted resources such as personal assistance and assistive technology.
If the cell phone is at least an intermediate option, it may be used as a display/graphical user interface (GUI) for the DAD.
Mucosal ablation is an area of much current investigation and provides an intermediate option between surgery and endoscopic surveillance, with the most data available for photodynamic therapy (PDT).
We will also explain why there is a need for systematic reviews of reasons, even though there are already informal reviews of reasons and reports promulgated by official bodies, which also offer decision-makers an intermediate option between reading all the reasons themselves and a summary of select, weighted reasons.
It seems reasonable that pharmacotherapy be offered as an alternative intermediate option to lifestyle or bariatric surgery, expanding the current armamentarium of obesity management.
First, the group's military and geopolitical gurus defined four likely military outcomes: no war; a benign war that lasts four to six weeks; a thornier intermediate option that lasts up to three months; and a "worse" case that drags on for as long as six months.
For example, Mr. O. (67) indicated that he missed an intermediate response option for 'Enjoyment', and Mrs. X. (87) considered the last two response options of 'Enjoyment' as similar.
The first solution was clearly better since the curves for all the items would then have a maximum over a unique interval of the scale, whilst in the second solution, the curves for the intermediate option would lack a maximum for the majority of the items.
As regards the characteristic response curves, for the majority of the items the intermediate option curves ("some difficulty", "much difficulty") lacked a maximum over a unique interval of the scale.
