'escalation procedure' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe processes for escalating issues or disputes to higher levels of authority. For example, "The company has an escalation procedure in place for customer complaints, where the customer service manager will review unresolved issues within 48 hours."
Napo claims the escalation procedure, which could involve 55,000 offenders a year, will take three to three and a half hours – seven times longer than at present.
We first expose zebrafish to ethanol chronically using a dose escalation procedure in which fish are kept in a final concentration of 0.5% vol/vol ethanol for 10 days while control fish receive identical dosing procedures but no ethanol.
In view of recurrent prolonged neutropaenia, we modified the dose escalation procedure to maintain the dose of docetaxel at 60 mg m−2 and increase the dose of ispinesib only.
While during the early stages of drug development, the model can be extended to predict a wider dose range to help design the clinical study and dose escalation procedure as well as explore food effects and possible DDIs.
A cohort with HD 5-FU was to be started if fewer than three DLTs were observed during the first 6 weeks (phase A-DLT evaluation period) (see Figure 2 for details of the 5-FU escalation procedure).
We can only speculate the reasons for these variations, which could be related to awareness that the high level of activity was transient and did not warrant evoking the level 4 escalation procedure.
"I want to assure all our patients across the UK that these issues were specific to Mount Alvernia and that we have since reviewed every one of our other hospitals and our reporting and escalation procedures to ensure that there are no similar issues elsewhere.
She said that "escalation" procedures should have prevented the build-up of patients in the hospital.
The maximum tolerated dose (MTD) 18, as determined by algorithmic dose escalation procedures such as the 3 + 3 design 19, is not well defined in the sense that it does not correspond to a fixed probability of a dose limiting toxicity (DLT).
This study demonstrates the principle that allowing patients in phase I oncology trials a choice of dose need not affect the overall properties of the dose-escalation procedure.
Mental health advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Nami, insist that de-escalation procedures could be practiced well before situations get to the point of arrest and that officers need to be better trained to handle psychiatric crises.
