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In addition some drugs have been revealed to have dramatic side effects, so that they can only be given to select patients through a restricted-use program.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Web site recommends that these drugs be given to selected patients who have the flu and be considered for other people in the patients' households who are at risk of serious complications if they become infected.

Post-operative adjuvant treatment was given to selected patients following the institutional protocol.

This study showed that women have contrasting experience of such treatments and that attention should be given to selecting patients for whom group treatment is most likely to be beneficial.

Consideration should be given to selecting patients at highest risk of progressive organ dysfunction defined by at least moderate protein C deficiency APACHE: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation APCC: activated protein C; SAP: severe acute pancreatitis.

There are currently no guidelines in any country that recommend withholding IVIG treatment in acute KD, thus we conventionally adopted the Harada score protocol whereby ASA alone is given to selected patients with KD in Japan.

Nevertheless, overall response rates have been relatively low in studies that have examined all NSCLC patients collectively (Shepherd et al, 2005), indicating that not all lung cancer patients are suitable for erlotinib treatment and that the treatment should only be given to selected patients.

Elimination treatment with topical or combined topical and systemic antimicrobial therapy was given to selected patients (e.g., long-term care patients of health-center wards and nursing homes) and those with severe underlying diseases who were frequently admitted to any hospital in the district (7, 8, 11 ).

Most importantly, imaging biomarkers can be used to select patients for a given therapy (companion diagnostics) and to monitor response in order to optimize therapeutic strategies tailored to the needs of the individual patient.

Thus EGFr quantitation may give independent prognostic information in NSCLC and help to select patients for adjuvant therapy after surgery.

Given this increased rate of pneumonitis it appears pertinent to select patients carefully when offering PC.