Sentence examples for prior modalities from inspiring English sources

The third phase represents a backlash effect in which the shortcomings of a new technique and its inferiority to prior modalities are stressed.

Prior treatment modalities in the literature range from no treatment to anticoagulation, thrombolytic use, aspirin therapy and surgical nephrectomy.

As a modality becomes established, it enters the second phase, in which it is touted as being superior to all prior conventional modalities.

Risk factors and severity of liver disease according to Child-Pugh status as well as prior treatment modalities were recorded at baseline.

Cause, risk factors and extent of liver disease according to Child-Pugh status as well as prior treatment modalities were recorded at baseline.

Blinded assessment of the treatment effects will be achieved by videotaping the performance of the patient and removing all hints of prior treatment modality.

Reasons for PE in deceased patients might also be associated with circumstances and treatment modalities prior to end of life.

The availability of a small animal model such as BLT mice for screening prevention modalities prior to or in conjunction with macaque and human studies is a great asset to the field [56].

An effect of the treatment modalities prior or in addition to thymostimulin has to be assumed in our study.

Limited sample sizes in future studies may necessitate aggregating CAM practices using factor analysis as done here, or by combining similar treatment modalities, prior to performing the LCA.

Indeed, data sparseness that resulted from pairing this added complexity of the large number of LCA indicator variables with our relatively small sample size necessitated collapsing CAM modalities prior to performing the LCA [ 30].