National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Efficacy

Synonyms

Effectiveness

Efficacy

efficacy

Definitions

The capacity to bring about a desired effect.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C88183

ALT_DEFINITION

A measure of intended effect on the disease or condition based on adequate and well-controlled clinical trials. [After Providing Clinical Evidence of Effectiveness for Human Drug and Biological Products. FDA GUIDANCE DOCUMENT. MAY 1998. After Demonstrating Substantial Evidence of Effectiveness for Human Drug and Biological Products. FDA Guidance for Industry (DRAFT GUIDANCE). December 2019] See also effectiveness.

Effectiveness. In medicine, the ability of an intervention (for example, a drug or surgery) to produce the desired beneficial effect.

code

C88183

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C67497

Contributing_Source

CDISC-GLOSS

DEFINITION

The capacity to bring about a desired effect.

FULL_SYN

Effectiveness

Efficacy

efficacy

label

Efficacy

Preferred_Name

Efficacy

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C88183

Semantic_Type

Conceptual Entity

UMLS_CUI

C1280519

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C20189

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