An objective intended to be realized by the successful execution of the Care Plan. "A health goal specifies a future target or achievement towards which the effort of care planning and execution is directed. Goals represent concrete targets to reduce or eliminate concerns or risks. A Goal may exist in the absence of concerns or risks. For example, a patient may have a goal to improve their fitness level. The plan always has at least one goal." - HL7 Care Plan Domain Analysis Model. "Describes the intended objective(s) for a patient, group or organization care, for example, weight loss, restoring an activity of daily living, obtaining herd immunity via immunization, meeting a process improvement objective, etc." - HL7 FHIR, Goal Note that a goal might be constructed of sub-goals, which might each be associated with a single outcome. For example, a goal to loose 5 pounds per week over 6 weeks might spawn 6 child goals to loose 5 pounds in week 1, week 2, etc. Each child goal would be associated with one actual outcome (i.e., lost 4 pounds in week 1; lost 6 pounds in week 2, etc). Then the "parent" goal outcome could be the total (e.g., lost 28 pounds in 6 weeks).