NCCN guidelines further detail treatment regimens in either of these scenarios.
Patients treated outside clinical trials received – based on the decision of the treating medical oncologist SB and VH – standard gemcitabine or gemcitabine-based chemotherapy until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or patient refusal (for detailed treatment regimens see Results section).
There are no half measures for Dr. Lodish, a hematologist and oncologist who devised his own intricately detailed treatment regimen.
Data detailing immunosuppressive regimen used in ICU and non-ICU-AAV patients, and their timing according to ICU admission, are outlined in Additional file 2: Table 2.
Charts were reviewed for documentation of three specific details: (a) regimen and indication, (b) duration, and (c) de-escalation.
All ART starts, changes and stops are recorded by the clinician on a form which details the regimen and the reason for the decision.
The theoretical basis, needling details and regimen of an acupuncture-like control need to be reported in the same way as is set out in STRICTA items 1 3 above.
In addition, the Standards for Reporting Interventions in Controlled Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA) [ 38] was used to evaluate the reporting quality, including acupuncture rationale, needling details, treatment regimen, co-interventions, practitioner background and control interventions.
Acting as an extension of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement [ 11], STRICTA were divided into six categories with 19 sub-items to address the specific needs of adequately describing acupuncture interventions: acupuncture rationale, needling details, treatment regimen, co-interventions, practitioner background, and control interventions.
The detail of the regimens are described previously [ 24 ].
