Sentence examples for empirically prescribed from inspiring English sources
Macrolides were empirically prescribed in 277 patients (70%).
The usefulness of a risk-factors-based predictive rule has been suggested in a medical ICU where antifungals were empirically prescribed accordingly [73].
The immune workup was repeated after two weeks of gentamicin treatment that was empirically prescribed for an acute febrile episode.
Ampicillin, gentamicin, and metronidazole were empirically prescribed.
We empirically prescribed a 10-day course of piperacillin-tazobactam.
However, sometimes steroids were empirically prescribed to treat signs and symptoms caused by unsuspected/unrecognized strongyloidiasis.
Recently, researchers in Israel, where most citizens receive their care through such a system, showed that refraining from empirically prescribing antibiotics during the summer months resulted in a sharp decline in ear infections caused by antibiotic-resistant microbes.
Anecdotal evidence from northern Saskatchewan and other Canadian communities suggests that physicians and prescribing nurses frequently opt to empirically prescribe antimicrobials without obtaining laboratory identification of the infecting organism or drug resistance.
On the other hand, the treatment of chronic gastritis vastly varies among clinicians, and some clinicians empirically prescribe proton pump inhibitor (PPI), while some clinicians use mucosal protecting agents, occasionally natural supplements or herbal remedies are provided.
Some reported that now they empirically prescribe antibiotics with activity against CA-MRS A(e.g. trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole or clindamycin) for patients with purulent SSTIs whereas they previously used cephalexin, while other participants still chose cephalexin as a first-line antibiotic.
Findings from the current study may be related, in part, to how well practitioners in the study nursing homes evaluated and appropriately targeted therapy to the specific type of anemia rather than empirically prescribing therapy without evaluating the cause of anemia when possible.
