Sentence examples for competing treatment from inspiring English sources

Some advocates have also asked school systems to provide a specific type of treatment, while others wanted a competing treatment.

Johnson & Johnson's Remicade, a competing treatment that works in a similar way to Humira, must be given intravenously in the hospital.

Enbrel, a competing treatment made by Amgen, can be injected at home and doesn't cause patients to build resistance.

After the decision is made to treat an intracranial aneurysm, clinicians must choose between two competing treatment options; open surgery or endovascular therapy.

The presentation centers on within-effect analyses of variance including the one-way design for testing pre-post hypotheses and the two-way parallel-groups design for making direct comparisons of competing treatment protocols (e.g., experimental treatment versus control).

The implication is that results of incremental cost-effectiveness analyses, for example those conducted to inform choices among competing treatment options, may be less affected by this variation; in contrast, analyses that seek to project long-term estimates of life expectancy or cost for a population of HIV-infected persons, may be more variable.

Many "effective" medications have only a marginal effect on disease processes or symptoms, and direct comparisons between competing treatments have been rare.

Defenders of controlled trials say they are crucial in determining whether a drug really does extend life more than competing treatments.

The administration plans to spend $1.1 billion over the next few years on studies like the one conducted by Dr. Deyo, to compare the effectiveness of competing treatments for common conditions like back pain, heart disease and prostate cancer.

The British study, which took eight years and screened 766 patients to find two groups of 90 to undergo competing treatments, found that ECMO gave adults a 16percentt better chance of survival.

In the worst case, we can be misled into believing that ineffective treatments are worth using; more commonly we are misled about the relative merits of competing treatments, exposing patients to inferior ones.