منابع مشابه
Conventional treatments for severe head injury: are they effective, ineffective, or even harmful?
SINCE the middle of the 1990s, most neurotrauma centres have followed the guidelines or recommendations put forward by the US Traumatic Coma databank (1), the European brain trauma consortium (2) or some local protocols such as the Addenbrooke algorithm (3), for the treatment of severe brain trauma. Even though these guidelines differ in details, they include essentially the same therapeutic co...
متن کاملDieting: really harmful, merely ineffective or actually helpful?
Dieting has developed a negative reputation among many researchers and health care professionals. However, 'dieting' can refer to a variety of behavioural patterns that are associated with different effects on eating and body weight. The wisdom of dieting depends on what kind of dieting is involved, who is doing it, and why. Thus, depending on what one means by the term, dieting can be quite ha...
متن کاملAre lotteries harmful ?
In 1987 the State of Wisconsin, in authorizing a state lottery, required the Wisconsin Lottery Board to contract with IRP to undertake a study of the impact of the lottery on Wisconsin residents of various income levels. Titled "Who Plays the Lottery? A Comparison of Patterns in Wisconsin and the Nation," the study was carried out by Irving Piliavin and Michael Polakowski and is available as IR...
متن کاملWhy do ineffective treatments seem helpful? A brief review
After any therapy, when symptoms improve, healthcare providers (and patients) are tempted to award credit to treatment. Over time, a particular treatment can seem so undeniably helpful that scientific verification of efficacy is judged an inconvenient waste of time and resources. Unfortunately, practitioners' accumulated, day-to-day, informal impressions of diagnostic reliability and clinical e...
متن کاملHow Feedback Biases Give Ineffective Medical Treatments a Good Reputation
BACKGROUND Medical treatments with no direct effect (like homeopathy) or that cause harm (like bloodletting) are common across cultures and throughout history. How do such treatments spread and persist? Most medical treatments result in a range of outcomes: some people improve while others deteriorate. If the people who improve are more inclined to tell others about their experiences than the p...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Deutsches Aerzteblatt Online
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1866-0452
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2010.0196b