efficacious

Modifies a noun

• treatment: The aim of the new study is to find the most efficacious treatments for the disease.
• product: There is currently some concern that it means the offering of cheaper yet less efficacious products.
• method: Orthodox methodologies will strengthen the standing of the profession within society and promote counseling and psychotherapy as an efficacious method of therapeutic change.
• vaccine: The availability of safe and efficacious vaccines for some equine infectious diseases is one of the success stories of modern veterinary medicine.
• grace: God saves sinners by the application of efficacious grace.
• drug: Given the unresolved global threat of the SARS-CoV epidemic, the rapid development of efficacious antiviral drugs is urgently needed.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: In most cases of moderate PAS the aforementioned program should prove efficacious.
• consider: In some parts of Europe it is still considered more efficacious than making the sign of the cross.
• find: The two tested vaccines were found efficacious for the oral vaccination of jackals.

Modifying Another Word

• causally: One of the most significant developments to the theory of Vision in God was the view that ideas are causally efficacious.
• equally: For the previous twenty years the NHS had lost interest in hydrotherapy using natural mineral waters, believing that tap water was equally efficacious.
• highly: The well is much frequented, and has in many cases proved highly efficacious.
• very: I have found a vapor bath very efficacious in releasing rigid fibers.
• not: If moral action is not efficacious in the production of moral good, then it may decrease the net amount of potential good.
• particularly: It is my sense that most resource sites do not provide a particularly efficacious service.

Preposition: in

prevention: Conclusions The use of antimicrobial prophylaxis is efficacious in the prevention of SWI in colorectal surgery.

Preposition: for

• condition: The authors themselves concluded that ' we found insufficient evidence from these studies that homeopathy is clearly efficacious for any single clinical condition ' .
• patient: It is to ensure that new procedures are safe and efficacious for patients.

Preposition: than

• placebo: They are more efficacious than placebo and may occasionally be useful for painful osteoarthritic joints where they can be rubbed on as necessary.
• cephalosporins: There is no convincing evidence to suggest that the second- and third-generation cephalosporins are more efficacious than the first-generation cephalosporins in this indication.