"Upstairs Downstairs," you may recall, was a reassuring Edwardian soap opera in which the beneficent ruling class dispensed noblesse oblige to the true-blue servants, and everybody was reasonably settled and happy.
All five vessels of the Deutschland class dispensed with the turret mountings for the secondary 17 cm guns; all of these guns were mounted in casemates in the hull.
Should English classes dispense with classic literature in favor of company annual reports?
As a proxy of general morbidity as well as a proxy of healthcare- and pharmacy-seeking behavior, the number of distinct medication classes dispensed (unique ATC codes) excluding statins and unique hospital admissions in the year prior to diagnosis were also considered potential confounders (both as continuous variables).
Additional baseline covariates were empirically identified by listing the 100 most frequent drug classes dispensed to the duloxetine initiator cohort during the baseline period, along with the most frequent diagnoses (at the 3-digit ICD-9 level) and procedures (based on Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes).
But to their credit, Gym Class Heroes dispense with all that; at his best, Mr. McCoy sounds less like a maverick and more like an inevitability.
In the Atmeh camp –inside Syria close to the Turkish border – for instance, the basic Syrian curriculum is taught, but pictures of the president are ripped out of the textbooks and the propagandistic "nationalism" class is dispensed with.
Pharmaceutical spending was defined as the total individual cost for reimbursed drugs only (class A), dispensed by retail pharmacies (not including hospital consumption), at actual prices including co-payment.
Hospitals used their computerized pharmacy databases to report all systemic antibacterials (WHO Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical class J01) dispensed.
In 2008 in Canada, fluoroquinolones were the fourth most frequently dispensed class of antimicrobial drug (dispensed for oral use by retail pharmacists; www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cipars-picra/2008/4-eng.php#Hum0).
For 20 years Martha - honey-blonde, perfectly-groomed, ever-smiling - has sat cosily at the hearth of every middle-class home, dispensing advice in her Martha Stewart Living magazine (2.1 million circulation), her bestselling books (Martha Stewart's Christmas) and her syndicated column (which appears in more than 200 newspapers).
