1.   Twelve patients had revisional surgery and it seems likely that the results of tests helped with the treatment decisions for these patients.

2.   How should we marry assessment of quality of life with assessment of conventional trial endpoints to reach a sound treatment decision?

3.   Archer, however, said Thursday that the results of nasal swabs should not be used to determine individual treatment decisions.

4.   -- Make medical treatment decisions for partners.

5.   A key provision of the Norwood bill would be the right of patients to sue insurers over treatment decisions.

6.   But basing treatment decisions solely on the numbers read off a sphygmomanometer, the familiar cuff used to measure blood pressure, can be a mistake.

7.   Critics acknowledge this, but contend that managed-care companies are making treatment decisions without regard to whether long-term therapy might be more appropriate.

8.   Crucial to the treatment decision is assessing how fast the child is growing.

9.   Delbanco has been conducting old-fashioned grand rounds on thorny cases and publishing the resulting treatment decisions in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

10.   He said the study gave credibility to arguments to incorporate quality-of-life measures into clinical trials and treatment decisions.