Sentence examples for inappropriate compared to from inspiring English sources

The median hospital LOS was 13 days longer and the median hospital costs were nearly double in the group receiving inappropriate compared to appropriate treatment (Table 3).

It is possible that such practices might also deliver enhanced quality prescribing which is less likely to be inappropriate compared to an average non-CPRD practice.

Inappropriate medication is based on the STOPP criteria [ 13], and in our study 37% of the AD participants used one or more drugs considered inappropriate compared to 11% in the control group (p < 0.001) (Table 3).

Black women in the US also appear less likely to receive systemic chemotherapy and hormone therapy (Naeim et al, 2006) and more likely to receive inappropriate treatment compared to national guidelines (Li et al, 2003) than White women.

Although no statistically significant, the low risk strata showed a higher rate of strategy inappropriate selection compared to the moderate and high risk ones (72%, 61% and 61.5 respectively, x2 = 0.7, p = 0.7).

In the analysis of dispensing of medications to patients aged 65 and over, 543 of 29,840 (1.8%) patients randomised to the intervention group were newly dispensed at least one potentially inappropriate medication compared to 644 of 29,840 (2.2%) in the usual care group (p=0.002, 16% relative risk reduction).

In addition, patients who perceived their disease as not severe had 65% reduction in inappropriate medicines management compared to those that perceived their disease to be very severe.

The present data show that Fallot-patients receiving ICD therapy have a higher rate of inappropriate ICD discharges compared to "regular" ICD-patients.

Patients who perceived their disease as moderately severe had 60% reduction in inappropriate medicines management compared to those who perceived their disease as very severe.

This latter argument is supported by studies (7, 8) that show a significantly greater increase in hospital deaths if patients received inappropriate antimicrobial therapy compared to those whose initial therapy was appropriate.

This was inappropriate and ridiculous, but compared to the bombastic militarism of previous years it bordered on the tasteful.