Sentence examples for prescribed instead of from inspiring English sources

When spending is too high because branded drugs are prescribed instead of generics, money is being wasted that could have been used to treat other patients.

Before recent recommendations that metformin be used as first-line therapy, it was often preferentially prescribed (instead of sulfonylureas, the only other antidiabetes agents available until recently) to patients perceived as having a higher risk of hypoglycemia or a higher risk of harm from hypoglycemia.

The drugs involved in the averted fatal overdosages were vinblastine (592.5 mg prescribed instead of 9.48 mg), vinorelbine (300 mg instead of 30 mg), cisplatin (1, 344 mg instead of 134 mg, a daily dose of 92 mg instead of 34 mg for 5 successive days), doxorubicin (415 mg instead of 41.5 mg), and docetaxel (918 mg instead of 85.5 mg).

So where Mill's statement departs from the common understanding of rights, we should charitably read Mill as prescribing, instead of describing, usage.

Finally, we made the assumption that anti-depressants were prescribed for the management of depressed mood; some may have been prescribed instead for the management of chronic arthritis pain and/or associated fibromyalgia.

When Charlotte refused Henry Nussey in 1839, her letter explained in a patient and kindly tone that she was not the right wife for him, and prescribed instead a similar caricature of meek womanhood: "Her character should not be too marked, ardent and original - her temper should be mild...'...'..

This difference was not due to a difference in treatment prescribed; instead, it is possible that carriers of 1858T do not respond primarily as well to the treatment as non-T-carriers.

During the study period, the prescribing of several drugs included in the indicators declined and it is assumed that other alternative medications have been prescribed instead.

Some American Media workers said that since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that people found to have been newly exposed to anthrax be prescribed doxycycline instead of Cipro, they had switched medications.

Doesn't this also allow people who are not physicians to follow the prescribed protocol instead of everyone having to wait for the doctor?

Patients who had had abnormal renal function tests were prescribed AZT instead of TDF.