Previous guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America considered macrolides, doxycycline, or fluoroquinolones as equivalent options for treating outpatients, with the suggestion that older patients and those with underlying disease have a stronger indication for fluoroquinolone therapy (21 ).
Furthermore, we also have limited tools to predict which patients will fail on an indicated therapy due to inherent resistance, or to predict which therapy among statistically equivalent options will be the most effective for an individual patient.
Substantial evidence exists supporting tocilizumab and abatacept as equivalent options to rituximab in anti-TNF or MTX-inadequate responders, as approved in Europe and the US.
The ensuing controversy of whether myectomy and ASA are truly equivalent options has resulted in calls for a prospective randomized trial.
In a category in which there are many equivalent options, they bargain with drug firms, offering to deliver all their business to one company in exchange for a discount.
You want to make it easy for your counterpart to agree to your request, and research consistently shows that negotiation outcomes are most successful when parties propose multiple equivalent options.
"Buridan's Ass" became an Enlightenment joke at the expense of medieval determinism, specifically that of the French cleric Jean Buridan, whose critics reduced his philosophy to a caricature: between equivalent options, there can be no choice.
How do my ethical obligations not to support a (supposed) crook square with my daughter's love of the school and its teachers, especially given the lack of equivalent options?
December 2008 LEAPS near the current S&P level of 1360 cost $1,710 each, while equivalent options at 1550 sell for $580, making the cost of a triple-the-index $50,000 trade around $11,300.
In case of no equivalent options for decision-making, listening, explaining and checking women's understanding are important for communication.
Community-living and institutionalized dementia patients differ regarding their demographic and clinical characteristics, and both settings are obviously not equivalent options for any particular patient.
