The discipline teaches future prescribers to use a logical deductive process, based on accurate and objective information, to adopt strict criteria (efficacy, safety, convenience and cost) on selecting drugs and to write a complete prescription.
Several of the cognitive-behaviour therapies (Clark et al., 2006; Heimberg et al., 1990 , 1998 Davidson et al., 2004; Rapee, Gaston and Abbott, 2009) have also passed a stricter, comparative efficacy test in the sense that they have been shown to be superior to one or more alternative psychological and/or drug treatments.
Extinction as a direct result of the treatment, which in our experiments has been taken as the most strict test of antiviral efficacy, may not be necessary to clear virus in vivo.
However, PI-based regimens require strict adherence to ensure efficacy, and many of these regimens incur a high pill burden, complex dosing schedules, numerous drug interactions, and metabolic complications including lipodystrophy, hyperlipidemia, and elevated glucose levels.
The primary efficacy criteria was strict BP control at week 8 (systolic BP/diastolic BP [SBP/DBP] <140/90 mm Hg and/or SBP/DBP <130/8 0mm Hg if diabetes or renal insufficiency).
Hence, the long-term benefit of such an educational and physical program on the burden of accompanying symptoms in this large sample of employees in the city of Turin seems to be in strict accordance with its general efficacy on the head-neck pain.
Efficacy trials use strict inclusion and exclusion criteria to enroll a defined, homogenous patient population.
Efficacy studies, requiring strict treatment and control conditions, typically exclude clients with complex clinical presentations.
Rheumatology is often algorithm and protocol driven, and adherence to guidelines and strict standards of safety and efficacy is a professional expectation [ 9].
Dietary intervention to control excess body weight, hyperglycemia, and dyslipidemia have included low-energy and low-fat diets but are of limited efficacy and require strict and long-term commitment.
