'was refrained' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone was prevented from doing something. For example: "The child was refrained from going outside until he had finished his homework."
When a conservative treatment plan was changed to surgery (and vice versa) as well as planned treatment was refrained because no pathology could be detected, those conditions were considered as change in therapy.
By this way, the complex steps in the slurry-coating process were avoided and excessively aggregating of the E Co Ni LDH nanosheets was refrained from, which supply high accessible surface area and large number of micro/mesopores for electrochemical reaction.
As the chemosensory stimuli were not detectable for most of the participants, it was refrained from analyzing any odor ratings.
In relation to the baseline period two separate peaks were differentiated within predefined latency windows (N1: 350–500 ms, P3: 700–900 ms; as the odors were perceived at the threshold level and with a low distinctiveness, it was refrained from dividing the P3 into different subcomponents [see 31]).
The subject was refrained from swallowing until prompted with the radioactive meal placed in the mouth.
As the focus of this study was not on imaging but on potential toxic side effects of these microspheres and because quantitative SPECT analysis will only be available in the near future, this was refrained from and the SPECT scans merely analyzed in a semi-quantitative fashion.
We want to suggest elderly cases over 80 years old should be refrained from the esophagectomy.
Thus the reads are refrained from the unsafe period and outputted as correct reads.
However, the efficiency for most of developed TMO has been refrained by poor intrinsic electrical conductivity and exposed active sites.
Recently, he's refrained from close contact with parishioners because of a weakened immune system.
In LISA and INMA children were refrained from eating or drinking one hour before the measurement.
