Sentence examples for rationale of comparing from inspiring English sources

Michael Pistorio, Des Plaines, Ill.: While I completely agree that it is a travesty for Americans to be devoid of a national health care solution, I question the rationale of comparing the costs of an American system to that of a foreign system.

This was the rationale for comparing the results of the present study with those of the IARC study: if the results correspond, expectations concerning the effects of cervical cancer screening are reinforced.

Our rationale for comparing estimates for a single calendar year was two-fold.

The rationale for comparing against the LVt-30 min group was that this group represents the uninjured state of the lung.

The promising results observed during the course of that experience provided the rationale to compare the activity of the combination D/EPI with the conventional treatment D/P in terms of progression-free survival (PFS) in advanced CRPC patients.

Thus, our results provide the rationale for studies comparing the effects of a single educational intervention with those yielded by a more comprehensive training in the health consequences of smoking.

A specific subgroup analysis with strong theoretical rationale will compare the clinical outcomes of pain and function of those who report high exercise adherence across all intervention groups (versus those who report lower exercise adherence).

Using this rationale, we compared the effectiveness of rIL-1Ra and tIL-1Ra under conditions in which the concentration of each would be similar at the time of IL-1β stimulation.

Individuals who said they selected a drug because of "previous use" were much more likely to purchase a non-ACT (χ=44.09, 1 d.f., p<0.01); 27.2% (158/581) of individuals purchasing non-ACTs gave this rationale compared to 11.3% (60/529) of those buying an ACT.

Rationale: Several studies compared the accuracy of different sites for temperature measurement in children.

BACKGROUND: The study rationale was to compare the biomarker profile of metalloproteinases (MMPs) and inflammation markers (IMs) in patients requiring revascularization with that of patients with long-term, clinically quiescent coronary artery disease (CAD).