He said it was "less efficacious for the real economy than most people suppose".
Concerning these points, some studies show that in clinical groups, coping strategies that focus on emotion (such as in the case with distancing and escape-avoidance) are less adaptive and helpful and, therefore, may be less efficacious for reducing tension and stress (e.g., Dabrowska and Pisula 2010), although this is controversial.
In addition, neither unfractionated heparin nor LMWH is more or less efficacious for preventing DVT.
Recently, Olarte-Sánchez et al. (2013) compared the values of a for corn oil and sucrose reinforcers; their findings were consistent with extant evidence that sucrose is less efficacious than corn oil on a volume-for-volume basis, but more efficacious on a calorie-for-calorie basis (Naleid et al., 2008).
For mild disease, less toxic but often less efficacious drugs are recommended, while on the other hand, more efficacious yet potentially more toxic drugs are typically administered to patients with severe disease or those who are not responsive to first-line therapy.
While the evidence for efficacy and cost suggests strategies should focus on expansion of modern methods, in some sites the focus remained on expanding access to less efficacious but more locally acceptable methods.
Three hours after antisepsis, the bacterial reduction on the gloved hand was only significantly less efficacious than that of the reference when 75% ethanol was used.
Differences in efficacy were syndromal, i.e. more or less efficacious in neuralgias than in persistent facial pain. .
Though very high doses were used in Group 2 (ivermectin injections followed by oral administration), the protocol seemed less efficacious compared to ivermectin injections (Group 1) and selamectin spot on (Group 3), respectively, although not statistically significant.
