Recruitment ended when the (pragmatic) target of 20 schools (69.0%) agreed to participate.
Our trial was pragmatic, targeting all patients treated with vancomycin in clinical practice.
However, taking into account the evidence base and practical issues in lipid analysis, measurement of non-HDL cholesterol is the simplest, most pragmatic target for therapeutic strategies.
The pragmatic target set by the World Health Organisation: to regularly treat at least 75% of primary school children at risk of morbidity due to schistosomiasis and STHs by the year 2010 [ 51] could also be achieved.
As knowledge on the noncoding parts of the genome can still be considered to be in its early days, the human exome is still a pragmatic target for many.
In practice this definition of within 24 hours is hard to define reliably through field investigation, and a more pragmatic target would be within 48 hours or same-day/next-day access to effective drugs.
However the entitlements included in this Global Strategy were governed by pragmatic, target driven concerns and did not address the more holistic rights driven agenda that would also involve more complex health systems solutions and a robust accountability mechanism to hold countries accountable for their commitments.
Given this integration into existing systems, and considering that about 12% of patients were missed at reception and another 15% were not interested, achieving accrual of over two-thirds of all patients is acceptable, and probably a pragmatic target to improve upon.
We set pragmatic sample targets for achieved responses (we initially assumed a 60% response rate) in each area and area type at every wave.
As the meeting progressed to the more substantive "thematic" debate, his remarks during his presentation at the podium and from the floor were reasonable, pragmatic, and targeted.
Interventions should be pragmatic and target both male and female drinkers.
