(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(3) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(4) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
(5) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
(6) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(7) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(8) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
(9) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(10) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(11) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
(12) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(13) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
(14) Omission of K(+), Ca(++) or Mg(++) had no effect on uptake.
(15) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(16) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(17) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(18) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(19) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(20) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
Efficacity
Definition:
(n.) Efficacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were no differences in the efficacity of the drugs.
(2) The report compares the compatibility, efficacity and serology response of two bivalent anti-foot-and-mouth disease vaccines (OC).
(3) The Asylum or Institution model showed the poorest levels of efficacity in all items, and the higher costs.
(4) Two major factors affecting therapeutic efficacity appear to be the patient's age and the length of time between onset of the symptoms and start of therapy.
(5) In order to evaluate the efficacity of plasma exchanges (PE) in dermatomyositis and polymyositis, the case histories of 38 patients, who had undergone plasma exchanges between 1980 and 1986 in 10 French plasmapheresis centers, were studied.
(6) For the purpose of analysing efficacity of the medial third tendon transfer to the distal and deep part of the medial collateral ligament before the bony maturity, 24 children have been reviewed with a post operative follow up of 14 months to 6 and half years.
(7) In this study we have evaluated its efficacity per os in treatment of auricular rhythm disorders refractory to the usual therapies, and its effects on the accessory routes of atrioventricular conduction.
(8) Inclusions criteria and results are examined, making obvious that patients responded well according to the Hamilton rating scale for depression (17 item version--16.4 points dropped at day 7th in 43%) and that it is an efficaceous antidepressant.
(9) Even simple inactivators were found to be efficace: 0.1% cysteine and 0.5% sodium thiosulfate for mercuric chloride and the iodophor; 0.1% sodium sulfite for these two substances and for the QAC in the lower concentration; 1.0% polysorbate 80 for hexylresorcinol, o-phenylphenol and the QAC in the lower concentration; 0.5% sodium thioglycolate for mercuric chloride, the iodophor and chloramine-T.
(10) The Comprehensive Program, whose main characteristic is the integration of the community in the effort to solve its mental health problems, proved to have the greatest efficacity, according to the items selected for evaluation.
(11) The results confirm earlier demonstrations that (1) "All superoxide dismutases are equal but some are more equal than others", (2) at the dose levels used (compatible with possible clinical use) homologous enzyme is inefficient and hence human Cu-SOD may not be effective in humans, (3) liposomal encapsulation of bovine Cu-SOD greatly enhances biological efficacity, provides a slow release mechanism of the enzyme and provides a powerful drug for the treatment of ischemic injury.
(12) Its genuine efficacity must be confirmed by a controlled study against placebo and other confirmed treatments like antiestrogens.
(13) Nevertheless, the knowledge of the primordial role of stasis and the phenomena of coagulation, and not least the platelets, in the matter of venous thrombogenesis, and knowledge of the results of studies on experimental thrombosis and of the first clinical trials lead to the conclusion that it is dangerous, at least at the moment, to abandon therapy for the prevention of venous thrombosis the efficacity of which is certain (heparin), in favour of substances the efficacity of which only hypothetical(anti-aggregants).
(14) The efficacity of the liver denervation procedure was confirmed by a significant decrease in norepinephrine content in various lobes of the liver.
(15) The present experiment shows the efficacity of the sesame-oil adjuvant influenza vaccine.
(16) A short summary of clinical results is given as a confirmation of the expected efficacity of the U.D.V.
(17) A Table allows a rapid and accurate determination of the quantity of vaccine to be injected into the mink to provide the same efficacity as a dose of standard vaccine.
(18) These findings would suggest that TP might restore the efficacity of sialyl transferase at the B lymphocyte level.
(19) We now feel that with the utilisation of these dosimetric criteria we will be able to: minimize the risk of complication without augmenting the indicence of local-regional failures; facilitate the objective comparison of the efficacity of the different intracavitary techniques presently employed at the major treatment centers.
(20) Their efficacity was evaluated by measurement of particle retention and by quantitative determination of the reduction of aerobiocontamination in rooms occupied by patients.