"treatment efficacy" refers to how well a treatment or therapy works to achieve its desired outcome or goal. It is a measure of the effectiveness or success of a treatment in producing positive results.
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Predictors of
treatment efficacy in a clinical trial of three psychosocial treatments for adolescent depression.J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry1998Sep; 37:906 — 14OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science Question In adolescents with depression, what are the predictors of treatment outcome and of differential treatment response when evaluating the effectiveness of 3 psychosocial therapies?
ERK1 / 2 inhibition increases antiestrogen
treatment efficacy by interfering with hypoxia - induced downregulation of ERalpha: a combination therapy potentially targeting hypoxic and dormant tumor cells
Any one technique applied to the complex dilemma of determining
treatment efficacy for a pathogen that is difficult to locate and propagate from its intermediate host may not be sufficient to provide a clear result.
The virus enhances the diffusion of the pesticide to the root level of the plant, where the nematode resides, thus
increasing treatment efficacy.
When combined with the IV chemotherapy drug Mitoxantrone,
treatment efficacy with Piroxicam resulted in even better results than using Piroxicam alone.
For the same reason, it is not easy to
prove treatment efficacy by means of controlled, randomized studies, the «gold standard» for evaluating new therapies.
«Phase 2 data
show treatment efficacy in «difficult - to - cure» hepatitis C patients: Investigational oral combination hepatitis C (HCV) treatment gets 1 step closer to offering HCV genotype 3 patients an effective therapeutic option.»
Those who had received T - sol in the blinded phase also continued to improve, suggesting that T -
sol treatment efficacy does not plateau in the first few months.
The research points to the increasing need to assess a patient's health - related quality of life and a patient's overall perception of relative well - being as a valuable tool to
evaluate treatment efficacies.
The findings, published in Brain and Behavior, further suggest that changes in cortical thickness and neural network connectivity may prove an effective way to quantitatively
measure treatment efficacy, an ability that has not existed until now.
For example, scientists are utilizing delivery systems to transport drugs and immunotherapy directly to the tumour site to
enhance treatment efficacy and decrease toxicity in other parts of the body.
(2) Treatment research, testing the effectiveness of addiction treatments and their underlying processes,
e.g. treatment efficacy, process evaluation, double diagnosis treatmentss, and patient - treatment matching (pharmacogenomics).
Notwithstanding the survival advantage offered by sorafenib, a great margin of improvement may be envisaged particularly for nonresponders, as well as for those patients who experience escape
from treatment efficacy.
Veterinarians have benefited from Winn - funded research involving a breadth of feline medical issues, including vaccine development, diagnostic test improvement and
treatment efficacy evaluation.
A clinical trial of three psychosocial treatments for adolescent depression: predictors of overall and differential treatment efficacy
First and foremost, the absence of a randomized control design necessitated a focus on individual differences in treatment outcome rather than
broader treatment efficacy.
This has important clinical implications in that heretofore most interventions have aimed to modify either specific parenting practices or more general family processes; better assimilation of the two could
optimize treatment efficacy (Patrick et al., 2013).
The aim of the current study was to examine the moderating effect of emotion regulation on
treatment efficacy following a parent - training intervention, parent — child interaction therapy, for young children born preterm.
Recent research includes assessment practices and
treatment efficacy for selective mutism, working memory and early literacy, and cognitive behavioral therapy as a treatment modality for people who stutter.
Predictors of
treatment efficacy in a clinical trial of three psychosocial treatments for adolescent depression
Overall, this can cause a reduction in
treatment efficacy.»
In this segment, Dr. House and Dr. Barrett talk about why the brain «fools us» into thinking our functional vision and movement is normal in the presence of neurological disease, and what this means for professional caregivers, families, and our medical culture and society, since patient self - reporting is now a major source of information about public health needs and
treatment efficacy.
Thus, our data describe a novel ROS - mediated regulation of H2AX turnover, which provides new insights into genetic instability and
treatment efficacy in TNBC patients.
However, device /
treatment efficacy is often quite poor with only 10 - 20 % total lung deposition for most devices on the market.
Sitting - Meditation Interventions Among Youth: A Review of
Treatment Efficacy.
The treatment efficacy was high for PTSD symptoms, depressive and anxiety symptoms, as well as on most cognitive measures.
Enhancing infant attachment security: An examination of
treatment efficacy and differential susceptibility.