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

Re:Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices foun... by Scoundreller on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:48AM (#20175395)

> The efficacy of a particular molecule for a particular patient isn't much easier than that to determine.

How do you handle situations where the provider doesn’t know/care which is best either and just chooses the intervention that was the most heavily marketed to them?

Why do we see new patent drugs replace the “old and boring” generics without any proven efficacy benefit?

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Re:Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices foun... by sametmax on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:58AM (#20175500)

You make public health care with fixed prices to contain the capitalism incentive. Worked for us in france: hospitals get pressure from the state and must justify their refundable expenses.

It's not perfect, there are still abuses, but it's nowhere the circus we see in the US.

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Re:Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices foun... by Scoundreller on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:49PM (#20178022)

How about outpatient prescriptions? Does a GP (or group thereof) get a budget of expenditures on prescriptions that they have to stay within?

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Re:Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices foun... by sametmax on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:43AM (#20180977)

I never heard about it.

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