The treatment of a disease with a single drug.
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- It is indicated for use as monotherapy or in combination therapy with metformin, a sulfonylurea, or insulin in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
- Both the systematic review and meta-analyses confirmed the superiority of combination therapy to inhaled corticosteroids monotherapy.
- Further studies are needed to determine nortriptyline's efficacy as monotherapy in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy.
- Dropout rates were similar for monotherapy and double therapy but significantly higher in trials containing protease inhibitors.
- As a group, these studies imply that combination treatment for most patients in hospital for mania represents a substantial acute advantage in treatment over monotherapy.