efficacy

A disposition of an organism to (i) undergo some bodily benefit that (ii) is triggered by a planned process. We often say in natural language it is the efficacy of the triggering planned process such as vaccination. However, processes do not have properties such as roles, dispositions, functions, qualities in BFO. And this is also not a process profile, because it is not the process of a quality changing values (determinates) over time. Nevertheless, it is natural to classify efficacies based on the type of triggering process because that is what differentiates what happens when they are realized. For example, a vaccination efficacy will be realized through different processes than a quarantine efficacy. For individual treatments, the triggering process is a treatment (as defined by OGMS).

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APOLLO_SV_00000454

We often say in natural language it is the efficacy of the triggering planned process such as vaccination. However, processes do not have properties such as roles, dispositions, functions, qualities in BFO. And this is also not a process profile, because it is not the process of a quality changing values (determinates) over time. Nevertheless, it is natural to classify efficacies based on the type of triggering process because that is what differentiates what happens when they are realized. For example, a vaccination efficacy will be realized through different processes than a quarantine efficacy. For individual treatments, the triggering process is a treatment (as defined by OGMS).

William R. Hogan

Matthew Diller

A disposition of an organism to (i) undergo some bodily benefit that (ii) is triggered by a planned process.

efficacy

APOLLO_SV:00000454

efficacy

William R. Hogan

Matthew Diller

A disposition of an organism to (i) undergo some bodily benefit that (ii) is triggered by a planned process.

efficacy

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000016