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by pella·15y ago·view on hn ↗
>"If someone could find a British metastudy containing a nice graph indicating ~50% of current standard medical treatments has no evidence of effectiveness"

"What percentage of the around 3000 treatments included in Clinical Evidence fall into each category:

- 11% Beneficial

- 23% Likely to be beneficial

- 7% Trade off between benefits and harm

- 51% Unknown effectiveness

- 5% Unlikely to be beneficial

- 3% Likely to be ineffective or harmful

http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp