The phrase "and were more efficacious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the effectiveness of two or more things, indicating that one was more effective than the other.
Example: "The new treatment options were tested against the old ones, and were more efficacious in reducing symptoms."
Alternatives: "and proved to be more effective" or "and were more successful".
Glu-Pt showed 6-fold increase in the MTD and was more efficacious against mouse L1210 ascetic leukemia than oxaliplatin at equitoxic doses.
Compared to the bispecific/divalent diabody, the tetravalent di-diabody binds more efficiently to both of its target antigens and is more efficacious in blocking ligand binding to the receptors.
Rational drug-design and chemical-synthesis of potent noscapine analogs (noscapinoids) that retain the non-toxic attributes of the parent noscapine and are more efficacious in cancer cells has been reported [7], [8], [9], [10].
However, physical exercise was comparable to clomipramine on certain outcome measures and was more efficacious than placebo.
Two meta-analyses on this topic showed no difference in mortality, however, citrate reduced the risk of bleeding and was more efficacious in one of them [ 3, 16].
Recently, reviews of couple-based interventions suggest that these have the potential to be as, if not more, efficacious than patient-only interventions in optimising patient adjustment and are more efficacious than usual care in enhancing partners' adjustment [ 29].
Hand antisepsis with alcohol-based handrubs has many advantages over handwashing with soap and water: it requires less time, acts faster, and is more efficacious, more convenient, and better tolerated by HCWs' skin [ 2].
According to Antonovsky [ 7], individuals with a strong SOC are more capable of perceiving stressors with sense and structure, and are more efficacious about their ability to deal with them.
In our previous study, we concluded that the darkness of the skin as determined by colorimetry is a reliable indicator of AN relative to normal skin and is more efficacious than the concentration of melanin as determined by DRS [ 17].
Anthracycline-containing polychemotherapy is currently the most commonly used regimen in France and is more efficacious than the CMF regimen: cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and fluorouracil (5-FU) (standard, level of evidence: A).
