Glossary

Titration

On this site, titration is the stepping up of a dose over time, and it is recorded because at most of these companies the price steps up with it.

A company that advertises one figure and then prices each dose separately is selling a ladder rather than a price, and that is one of the three gaps these reviews measure. The advertised number is almost always the starting dose; the figure a reader pays six months later is further up the same table. Every review prints the whole ladder for that reason, in the units the company publishes it in.

Where a company says who decides the step, or what a step costs, the review records it — a flat rate held at every dose, a tier that follows the cost of the medication, a top dose sold to existing patients only. These are different purchases and this site does not flatten them into one row. What a dose should be, or when it ought to change, is a clinical question these pages do not answer.

Why this word has a page

5 of the 92 reviews published on this site use it. A word gets an entry here at 5, measured against the reviews' own text every time the site builds — so this page cannot outlive the usage that justified it.

Every review that uses it

Each line is the sentence the word appears in, taken from our review of that company, with the full review a click away.

1 of the 5 reviews above use the word only inside a passage too long to quote here in one piece. We would rather link the review than cut a sentence out of the middle of a quotation.

The rest of the glossary

All 92 reviews are on the index, priced by molecule on the molecule pages. The rules every review follows are on how we review. Nothing on this page is medical advice — the disclaimer is here.