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Why do doctors use treatments that do not work?

Jenny Doust, Chris Del Mar.

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Year: 2004 PMID： 14988163 PMCID： PMC351829 DOI： 10.1136/bmj.328.7438.474

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7. Anticoagulants in acute myocardial infarction. The failure of anticoagulants to alter mortality in a randomized series.

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9. Mortality and morbidity in patients receiving encainide, flecainide, or placebo. The Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial.

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Authors: Alan H Morris
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Why do doctors use treatments that do not work?

1. Insulin coma therapy in schizophrenia.

Review 2. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials.

3. Need the thumb be immobilised in scaphoid fractures? A randomised prospective trial.

4. A randomised controlled trial of psychological debriefing for victims of road traffic accidents.

Review 5. Routine preoperative testing: a systematic review of the evidence.

6. The 'chagrin factor' and qualitative decision analysis.

7. Anticoagulants in acute myocardial infarction. The failure of anticoagulants to alter mortality in a randomized series.

Review 8. Fluoride for treating postmenopausal osteoporosis.

9. Mortality and morbidity in patients receiving encainide, flecainide, or placebo. The Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial.

10. Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: principal results From the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial.

Review 1. Making decisions about benefits and harms of medicines.

2. If it doesn't work, stop it: Small question with big answers.

3. If it doesn't work, stop it: don't just stand there, hold my hand.

4. If it doesn't work, stop it: medicine is a science of prediction and intervention.

5. What doesn't work and how to show it.

6. Exciting new ECMO technology awaits compelling scientific evidence for widespread use in adults with respiratory failure.

7. [Evidence based medicine. Wish and reality in routing surgical practice].

Review 8. Doctors as patients: a systematic review of doctors' health access and the barriers they experience.

9. Evidence base for pre-employment medical screening.

10. Systematic reviews, systematic error and the acquisition of clinical knowledge.