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Key points
- Neither theory nor professional opinion is a reliable guide to safe, effective treatments
- Just because a treatment is ‘established’ does not mean it does more good than harm
- Even if patients do not suffer from inadequately tested treatments, using them can waste individual and community resources
Introduction
Some treatments are in use for a long time before it is realized that they can do more harm than good. In this section we explain how this may come about.
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Ichalmers
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Douglas Badenoch
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