Mary B. Roberts

TL;DR: Among patients with severe sepsis, the use of eritoran, compared with placebo, did not result in reduced 28-day mortality, and no significant differences were observed in any of the prespecified subgroups.

TL;DR: Utilizing computer expert systems and self-help manuals to provide individually-tailored, motivationally-matched interventions appears to be an effective, low-cost approach for enhancing physical activity participation in the community.

TL;DR: Vigorous exercise facilitates short- and longer-term smoking cessation in women when combined with a cognitive-behavioral smoking cessation program and improves exercise capacity and delays weight gain following smoking cessation.

TL;DR: These findings appear to support treatment approaches that tailor interventions to the individual's stage of motivational readiness for exercise adoption, and demonstrate the first prospective, randomized, controlled trial demonstrating the efficacy of a brief motivationally tailored intervention compared to a standard self-help intervention for Exercise adoption.

TL;DR: Although a supervised program results in optimal walking benefits, a highly structured home-based program provides similar functional improvement and may be a satisfactory alternative for patients with lesser walking requirements.