Examples of AUC in a sentence
Since patient controlled remifentanil is not equivalent to epidural analgesia with respect to AUC for satisfaction with pain relief we recommend epidural analgesia as the method of choice.
After careful consideration we decided not to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis since we deemed it impossible to decide what a loss of 1 point in the AUC of satisfaction with pain relief is worth in costs.
Since patient controlled remifentanil is not equivalent to epidural analgesia with respect to AUC for satisfaction with pain relief in labouring women we recommend epidural analgesia to be the treatment of choice.
We used multiple imputation with SPSS to correct for missing primary outcome data.13-15 We imputed missing AUC values for satisfaction with pain relief and pain intensity (transformed so that the distribution was approximately normal) using 20 imputed datasets.
Main outcome measures: Primary outcome for effectiveness was satisfaction with pain relief, expressed as the area under the curve (AUC).