These patients could receive prophylactic hematopoietic growth-factor support to decrease treatment-related morbidity and to increase the likelihood of the administration of full-dose chemotherapy on time.

If I knew for sure that breast self-exam was known to decrease morbidity and mortality, I would probably more enthusiastically recommend it.

The potential role of radiation modifiers to improve local control or decrease morbidity.

Dental lasers are not without their benefits, though, as the use of a laser can decrease morbidity after surgery, and reduces the need for anesthetics.

Although some of the structural interventions can decrease premature morbidity and mortality, the social and historical determinants of the structural violence cannot be omitted.

However, routine integration of primary prevention into practice has been sub-optimal, resulting in lost opportunities to decrease morbidity and mortality [ 2 ] .

Heparin-coated blood oxygenators are one option available to a surgeon and a perfusionist to decrease morbidity associated with CPB to a limited degree.

Vector control refers to preventative methods used to decrease malaria and morbidity and mortality by reducing the levels of transmission.

It may also decrease all-cause morbidity and lengthen life-span.

It can be used during an outbreak to decrease morbidity and deaths.