Sentence examples for protracted use from inspiring English sources

He was delighted with this new game, but as his palindronic skills improved he failed to notice at first that, like all sedatives this one had begun to weaken with protracted use.

However, as a matter of good clinical judgment, it is prudent to consider all analgesics potentially nephrotoxic and to counsel against excessive, protracted use [46, 81].

After the Operation Trial and Evaluation, it was found that the aircraft were not suitably protected and survivable for protracted use in combat zones.

The often protracted use of antibiotics in our patients may also have detrimental sequelae on the microbial balance in CRS which requires further substantiation.

Although the toxicity profile of the existing TKIs may be reasonable in the setting of metastatic disease, it is unclear whether protracted use of these agents would be tolerated by otherwise healthy women.

Therefore, to address these threats to 'temporal validity' there is a requirement to secure resources for supporting routine maintenance and updating of information content to support protracted use of decision aids such as COMPASS, including weighing up the pros and cons of implementation informed by prospective evaluation from randomised trials or real-time service evaluations [ 6, 24, 39].

The act recognized in particular that the Sami people, through protracted traditional use of the area, had acquired individual and collective ownership of the area and the right to use its land and water.

In addition, Lu et al. found large differences across hospitals in California and also found higher incidences of obstetrical trauma, chorioamnionitis, and protracted labor (used as proxy of the quality of health care) in hospitals with a high PPH incidence [ 28].

Because the add-back low-dose hormone replacement should permit long-term use, protracted reductions in hormone exposure is possible.

We, however, consider the qualitative connotation of the term to be less arbitrary and use "protracted" as a relative term, indicating an evolutionary process with phases of stasis or even reversal.

Expanding IBD-specific quality measures to include steroid taper plans may cue appropriate maintenance regimens that include anti-TNFs and other steroid sparing agents while reducing protracted concomitant steroid use as intended by current quality measures.