Participants eligible for the blood pressure trial are randomized to 1 of 2 groups with different treatment goals: systolic blood pressure <120 mm Hg for the more intensive goal and systolic blood pressure <140 mm Hg for the less intensive goal.
The glycemia trial randomized 10,251 participants with type 2 diabetes to intensive (goal HbA1c <6%) or standard therapies (goal HbA1c 7.0 7.9%).
The glycemia trial randomized 10,251 participants with type 2 diabetes to intensive (goal HbA1c <6%) or standard (goal HbA1c 7.0 7.9%) glucose control.
To evaluate the effects of electrically assisted movement therapy (EAMT) in which patients use functional electrical stimulation, modulated by a custom device controlled through the patient's unaffected hand, to produce or assist task-specific upper limb movements, which enables them to engage in intensive goal-oriented training.
Intensive, goal-directed parenting puts parents, and mothers especially, under extraordinary pressure that is not good for them and is not serving children.
Shortly after the introduction of intensive goal-directed resuscitation of septic patients based on their initial lactate level, monitoring lactate clearance, a tool originally developed for use in trauma patients, was also utilized in sepsis patients.
The advent of intensive, goal-directed treatment strategies, employing combinations of synthetic as well as biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), has substantially improved the prognosis of this disease [ 1].
In the present study change in function was examined in a heterogeneous sample of children with CP who participated in a three-week period of intensive, goal-directed, activity-focused physiotherapy in a group setting.
Then, in the early part of the past decade, studies of intensive "goal-directed" treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock used elevated lactate levels to guide therapy 14, and obtaining a lactate level when monitoring patients at risk of developing sepsis became standard practice.
The aim of the present study was to 1) investigate the impact on motor function and everyday activities of a 3 week-period of intensive, goal-directed, activity-focused physiotherapy in a group setting for children with CP, and 2) examine the relationship between acquisition of basic motor abilities and quality of movements.
Then, in the early part of the past decade, clinical guides of intensive "goal-directed" treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock used elevated lactate levels to guide therapy, and obtaining a lactate level when monitoring patients at risk of developing sepsis became standard practice [ 11].
