relative efficacy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrelativeandefficacy
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relative
adjective
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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efficacy
noun[U]
uk/ˈef.ɪ.kə.si/us/ˈef.ə.kə.si/
formal
the ability, especially of a medicine or a method of achieving something, to produce the ...
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This ratio index gives an approximate measure ofrelativeefficacyfor drug and placebo.
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Fourth, almost all existing schoolbased prevention programs have multiple components, but no one has shown therelativeefficacyof the different aspects of these interventions.
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There is still debate on therelativeefficacyof different strategies to control and prevent disease outbreaks.
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To determine therelativeefficacyof doxorubicin versus methotrexate in combination with intravenous cyclophosphamide and 5-fluorouracil, as adjuvant chemotherapy for operable breast cancer.
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Therefore, therelativeefficacyof specific types of behavioral versus relationship-based interventions remains open to further investigation.
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While this approach may be useful to assessrelativeefficacyof a reference compound, it is not particularly useful to practicing clinicians.
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The absence of any large-scale randomized controlled trials makes it difficult to assess therelativeefficacyof competing psychotherapies for hysteria.
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No clear trend emerges as to therelativeefficacyof individual, group or family-based intervention.
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Emergency oral anticoagulant reversal: therelativeefficacyof infusions of fresh frozen plasma and clotting factor concentrate on the correction of the coagulopathy.
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Since only a single dose of each drug was studied, with limited information to justify that dose, conclusions about efficacy, let alonerelativeefficacy, were necessarily tentative.
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Is the clinical data available for justifying their use, or has the notion of intrinsic efficacy been largely superseded by technological comparisons of therelativeefficacyof different models?
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Indirect comparison in evaluatingrelativeefficacyillustrated by antimicrobial prophylaxis in colorectal surgery.
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Theorists have examined the value of repetition for soft-sell versus hard-sell messages, in order to determine theirrelativeefficacy.
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Therelativeefficacyof surgery compared with angioplasty (especially with stenting) for fibromuscular dysplasia or for non-occlusive, non-ostial atherosclerotic disease is unclear.
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This enables development agencies to identify unmet needs, assess therelativeefficacyof varying programs, and more efficiently allocate scarce resources across competing program needs.
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Although this may be used in clinical practice, there is little evidence for therelativeefficacyor adverse effects of this strategy.
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This data show that, for these molecules, changes in chemical structure lead to changes inrelativeefficacynot reflected in the affinity measurement.
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In the meantime, theirrelativeefficacyis exploited, and they are employed to destroy this old machinery to which they belong and of which they themselves are pieces.
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Bluing is often a hobbyist endeavor, and there are many methods of bluing, and continuing debates about therelativeefficacyof each method.
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