Apollo Structured Vocabulary

Last uploaded: August 15, 2024
Preferred Name

efficacy
Synonyms
Definitions

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).

ID

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

comment

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).

Creator

William R. Hogan

Matthew Diller

elucidation

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

label

efficacy

prefixIRI

APOLLO_SV:00000454

prefLabel

efficacy

term editor

William R. Hogan

Matthew Diller

textual definition

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

Unique Apollo Label

efficacy

subClassOf

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

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