EFFICACY


Meaning of EFFICACY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

assess

The aim of our study was to assess the efficacy and longterm effectiveness of treatment with endoscopy in Dieulafoy's disease.

All in all it was a wide variety of clinical situations in which to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic treatment.

evaluate

Six prospective randomised trials have evaluated the efficacy of elemental diets in Crohn's disease.

In conclusion, this study has evaluated the efficacy of four commercial serological tests in comparison with standard biopsy related tests.

show

These findings are surprising since it is more difficult to show efficacy when the majority of patients have remission/mild disease.

Several studies have shown the efficacy of 6-mercaptopurine and azathioprine in the treatment of both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

Products must continue to show adequate antimicrobial efficacy at the end of the shelf-life.

A trial is first performed to show efficacy and, within limits, to quantify the effect.

Trials have not yet shown the clinical efficacy of this approach; they have shown its safety.

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Each is adorned with silken cloths and has its tusks shod with iron for the greater efficacy of killing criminals.

Evaluate vaccine efficacy and the costs and benefits of vaccination programs for emerging infections.

Franz Kafka perfectly exemplifies the efficacy of art in counteracting emotional wounds, if not in healing them.

It is a controversy over the issues of risk versus efficacy .

Salmeterol could therefore reduce the efficacy of salbutamol when the two are given in combination.

Struan, because of its direct descent from a traditional ritualistic practice, still retains a trace of sacramental efficacy .

Sufficient data on safety and efficacy of long-term use of Ritalin in children are not yet available.

This effect, essentially an increase in the efficacy of transmission between pre- and postsynaptic cells, was termed potentiation.

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