If you knew there was only a 36% chance that taking your child (or self) to a hospital or clinic could be beneficial, what would you do? The British Medical Journal recently undertook an general analysis of common medical treatments to determine which are supported by sufficient reliable evidence. They evaluated around 2,500 treatments, and the results were as follows:13 percent were found to be beneficial, 23 percent were likely to be beneficial, eight percent were as likely to be harmful as beneficial, six percent were unlikely to be beneficial, four percent were likely to be harmful or ineffective. This left the largest category, 46 percent, as unknown in their effectiveness. In other words, when you take your sick child to the hospital or clinic, there is only a 36 percent chance that he will receive a treatment that has been scientifically demonstrated to be either beneficial or likely to be beneficial.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000