Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices found ineffective in study

Re:Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices foun... by michaelbuckbee on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:47AM (#20175391)

Efficacy is important as many drugs have significant side effects. If a drug is not going to actually reduce your chance of heart attack or help treat aggressive cancer it's likely not worth the trade-off with side effects.

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Re:Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices foun... by homonculus1 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:39AM (#20175900)

Not to mention cost, and the opportunity costs that emerge from it.

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Re:Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices foun... by PakG1 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:37PM (#20176495)

Part of the opportunity cost being that you could have chosen a more effective treatment if the bar had been set higher. Difficult for patients to be able to correctly determine whether a treatment would actually be good for them. They're not in a good place to decide, for the same reason why lawyers should never represent themselves if possible.

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