liz askew Apr 16, 2012:

efficacy and effectiveness are two separate concepts. Here "efectividad" = effectiveness.

lorenab23 Apr 16, 2012:

Because you are saying that this is about ruling using the criteria of evidence-based medicine and this also about technical assistance for the judges, then it makes me think, as James mentions in his answer, that it has to do with the effectiveness of a particular medicine, treatment etc. In my humble opinion I would use the word "efficacy" as in Efficacy information center.
See here:
Medicine

In medicine, efficacy indicates the capacity for beneficial change (or therapeutic effect) of a given intervention (e.g. a drug, medical device, surgical procedure, or a public health intervention). If efficacy is established, an intervention is likely to be at least as good as other available interventions, to which it will have been compared. Comparisons of this type are typically made in 'explanatory' randomized controlled trials, whereas 'pragmatic' trials are used to establish the effectiveness of an intervention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy

liz askew Apr 16, 2012:

This is not clear at all. Are they talking about an information centre to enable judges to access experts?

Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.) Apr 16, 2012:

Hola Muriel Puede que se refieran a: "enhance judges' effectiveness" in obtaining information or evaluating evidence-based medicine.