One could argue that these treatments remain as curative because they were prescribed for cure.
Along with the differences in the anticipated clinical outcomes, radiotherapy is prescribed differently in curative and palliative settings [ 1].
Heparin at curative dose was prescribed in all cases with a relay by oral anticoagulant.
Huntington and colleagues found a decrease in prescribed treatment for children seeking curative care in pay-for-performance intervention sites in Egypt; however, among those prescribed treatment the probability of receiving medication during the visit was significantly higher compared to those seen in comparison sites [ 11].
Since potentially curative adjuvant hormone therapy is prescribed on the basis of hormone receptor immunostaining, we recommend that patients with ER− or PgR− status on pretreatment core biopsies should undergo repeat assay on the resected surgical specimen.
Anticoagulants were prescribed in 86 patients (58 prophylactic and 28 curative) and 88 patients received low dose aspirin.
Like various health crusaders of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — James Crossley Eno, who touted the healing properties of his dyspepsia remedy, a sodium-bicarbonate mixture known as "fruit salts," or John Harvey Kellogg, who prescribed for all mankind whole-grain flakes and enemas — Lynda is evangelical about the curative powers of her food product.
Four factors were identified for the present study as having an important influence on the effect of curative interventions: efficacy of individual drugs, diagnostic accuracy, appropriateness of the treatment prescribed and patient compliance.
9– 11 14 Medications prescribed for dizziness due to vestibular disorder do not have well-established preventative or curative effects, thus exercises designed to facilitate vestibular rehabilitation (VR) are now recommended as the treatment of choice.
According to one estimate, only 20 percent of those with malaria actually seek curative treatment, and then only a third of those take the drugs as prescribed.
