The phrase "initial dosage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the first or beginning dose of something, such as a medication, a supplement, or any other substance. For example, you could say, "The doctor prescribed an initial dosage of two pills a day for two weeks."
The most frequent criterion of inadequacy was a wrong initial dosage, followed by the initiation of an antibiotherapy without a microbiologic sample, a wrong delay of reassessment, and a nonconformity of treatment to unit protocols.
In fact, he wanted to up the dose of methotrexate from 10 milligrams to 15 milligrams, because we were seeing the full effects of the initial dosage and Shepherd was still in pain.
There was not enough patients with high BZD initial dosage to draw any conclusion.
This would help determine the initial dosage of warfarin and allow better use of antihypertensive and antidepressant medications.
Neither hypoglycemia nor hypokalemia were correlated with initial insulin bolus or initial dosage of continuous intravenous insulin.
As far as it can be said retrospectively, the initial dosage was chosen independently of the presence of neurological symptoms.
All the patients included received a continuous infusion of cisatracurium with an initial dosage based on current guidelines [15].
The bioavailability (the percentage of the drug absorbed compared to its initial dosage) is limited by this insolubility.
Efficacy parameters were compared between verum and placebo overall and according to the initial dosage of BZD.
Until recently, about the only way that a doctor could determine an initial dosage for the anti-coagulant was based on the patient's weight.
The initial dosage ranged from 50 to 250 mg (mean, 106 mg) and was determined by the physician on duty who had the first contact with the patient.
