DeCS

Descriptor English:

Effectiveness

Descriptor Spanish:

Efectividad

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	efectividad
Scope note:	Es una medida del cumplimiento de los objetivos de las intervenciones, procedimientos, tratamientos o servicios en condiciones reales. (Traducción libre del original: Last, 2001)

Descriptor Portuguese:

Efetividade

Descriptor French:

Efficacité (Effectiveness)

Tree number(s):

SP5.312.109.198.233.471

Scope note:

A measure of the extent to which a specific intervention, procedure, regimen, or service, when deployed in the field in routine circumstaces, fulfills its objectives. (From: Last, 2001)

Allowable Qualifiers:

No qualifiers

Health Evaluation DeCS
Health Programs and Plans DeCS
Management Audit MeSH
Risk MeSH

DeCS ID:

16735

Unique ID:

DDCS016735

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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PUBLIC HEALTH

Epidemiology and Biostatistics [SP5]

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Epidemiology [SP5.312]

Epidemiology

Uses of Epidemiology [SP5.312.109]

Uses of Epidemiology

Analytical Epidemiology [SP5.312.109.198]

Analytical Epidemiology

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation [SP5.312.109.198.233]

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Effectiveness [SP5.312.109.198.233.471]

Effectiveness

Effectiveness - Preferred

Concept UI	FD00057845
Scope note	A measure of the extent to which a specific intervention, procedure, regimen, or service, when deployed in the field in routine circumstaces, fulfills its objectives. (From: Last, 2001)
Preferred term	Effectiveness

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