efficacy definition

efficacy in relation to a drug means its ability to achieve the desired effect in a controlled clinical setting;

efficacy means the ability of a medical device to achieve the intended clinical benefit(s) to patients, in the intended target group(s), when the device is used as intended by the manufacturer, under ideal circumstances (as in a pre-market clinical investigation); 120

efficacy means a measure concerning the overall effect of the application of a plant protection product on the agricultural system in which it is used (i.e. which includes positive effects of treatment in performing the desired plant protection activity and negative effects such as development of resistance, phytotoxicity or reduction of qualitative or quantitative yield);

More Definitions of efficacy

efficacy shall have the meaning established by the Program Committee. Fundamentally, “Efficacy” shall mean a commercially viable level of value creation, which shall be established by the Program Committee at the beginning of the Program, and which can be reviewed, and amended if deemed necessary, by the Program Committee throughout the duration of the Program.

efficacy. . „Efficacy‟ now clearly means „therapeutic efficacy‟. The Court clearly rules out any efficacy in terms of properties. The following section summarizes the reasoning of Supreme Court

efficacy means the degree of effectiveness at the dose rate, frequency and dura- tion of use, and by the route of administration claimed by the manufacturer;

efficacy means the ability to produce a desired or intended result. Hence, the test of efficacy in the context of section 3(d) would be different, depending upon the result the product under consideration is desired or intended to produce. In other words, the test of efficacy would depend upon the function, utility or the purpose of the product under consideration. Therefore, for instance, in the case of a medicine that claims to cure a disease, the test of efficacy can only be “therapeutic efficacy”. The question then arises: what would be the parameter of therapeutic efficacy and what are the advantages and benefits that may be taken into account for determining the enhancement of therapeutic efficacy? With regard to the genesis and the circumstances in which section 3(d) was amended there is no doubt that the “therapeutic efficacy” of a medicine must be judged strictly and narrowly. This provides an inference that the test of enhanced efficacy in

efficacy means a reasonable expectation that, in a significant proportion of the target population, the pharmacological product, when used under adequate direction for use and warning against unsafe use, will serve a clinically significant function.

efficacy means the extent to which a drug works under ideal circumstances i.e. in trials and a laboratory study;

efficacy means the ability of a therapy to achieve the intended therapeutic effect based on substantial evidence;