Chouaid et al performed a model-based study of compassionate-use gefitinib therapy in France (between 2002 and 2004), based on data from 106 patients.
In fact, small-scale studies of the "compassionate use" of thioridazine in XDR-TB patients who failed to respond to any antibiotic regimen have already shown encouraging results [17].
Compassionomics is the branch of knowledge and scientific study of the effects of compassionate healthcare, and herein we describe a framework for hypothesis testing.
Faced with such an exceptional event and the urgent response it demands, the use of randomised controlled trials (RCT) for Ebola-related research might be both unethical and infeasible and that potential interventions should be assessed in non-randomised studies on the basis of compassionate use.
On the surface a thriller in the Hitchcock mode, like many Chabrol films, Le Boucher is a subtle, compassionate study of sexual frustration.
Griffiths won Olivier and Tony awards, in London and New York, for his compassionate study of this natural outsider, and repeated his performance in Nicholas Hytner's film version.
O'Sullivan's compassionate study of psychosomatic illness through the exploration of seven case studies demonstrated how past traumas manifest themselves in very real symptoms.
Frank Kermode wrote here that the result is a "skillful and compassionate" study of the war and "an important contribution to our understanding of how we came to make it part of our minds".
Overlooked if not dormant for the past two decades, Paolo, now 82, and Vittorio, 83, are back with Caesar Must Die, a taut, compassionate study of the preparations for a production of Julius Caesar.
And Carlo Levi earned international fame with his compassionate study of the plight of peasants in southern Italy (where he had been exiled), Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1945; Christ Stopped at Eboli).
His Pietà is richly realistic and beautiful: his compassionate study of the lineaments of death in a young man's body catches your emotions by surprise as you notice the thinness of a leg, the slump of a shoulder's flesh.
