Sentence examples for be less efficacious than from inspiring English sources
Although previous studies have found automated percutaneous discectomy and epidural percutaneous discectomy to be less efficacious than conventional discectomy, these percutaneous procedures may be effective and cost-effective as a first surgical treatment for herniated lumbar disc.
In general dopamine agonists are considered to be less efficacious than levodopa.
These agents appear to be less efficacious than dopamine agonists, but are better tolerated.
Abatacept is expected to be less efficacious than tocilizumab, but showed findings comparable to all other biologic agents.
In contrast, cosmetic antiwrinkle products are well tolerated but are generally presumed to be less efficacious than tretinoin.
Improvements in PROs with tocilizumab as monotherapy were similar to that of tocilizumab + MTX, whereas aTNF as monotherapy was likely to be less efficacious than aTNF + MTX.
Assuming that crystalloid solutions possess glycocalyx releasing properties per se, and given the fact that crystalloids were less efficacious than the colloids to restore blood pressure, we cannot exclude that the amount of heparan sulphate and syndecan-1 would have been higher in the RA group if resuscitation had been targeted to obtain similar blood pressures in all groups.
In the case of off-label medications, the assumption of equal efficacy with rectal diazepam was a conservative estimate as clinical experts in several countries suggested that other off-label medications, such as lorazepam tablets administered by the buccal route, were less efficacious than rectal diazepam.
In clinical trials, pharmacological inhibitors of PDE4 developed as potential therapies for treatment of inflammatory diseases were less efficacious than preclinical data suggested [18], [21], [22]; consequently, none has yet been approved for clinical use [23], [24].
Some results of such an exploration are shown in Table 2. Table 2 shows that increasing VMAT2 could elevate concentrations of extracellular dopamine and total dopamine, but is less efficacious than MAO inhibition.
