| Title |
How Often Are Ineffective Interventions Still Used in Clinical Practice? A Cross-Sectional Survey of 6,272 Clinicians in China
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0052159 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Xiao-Min Luo, Jin-Ling Tang, Yong-Hua Hu, Li-Ming Li, Yan-Ling Wang, Wei-Zhong Wang, Li Yang, Xiao-hui Ouyang, Guang-cai Duan |
| Abstract |
The World Health Organization reported in 2011 that irrational use of medicines was a serious global problem that is wasteful and harmful. The worst is use of ineffective or harmful interventions which should not be used at all. However, little is known about the changes that 20 years of evidence-based medicine has made particularly in reducing use of ineffective interventions. We surveyed clinicians in China to show how often ineffective interventions were still used in practice. |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
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| Unknown | 13 | 100% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 31% |
| Researcher | 3 | 23% |
| Professor | 1 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 3 | 23% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 23% |
| Psychology | 2 | 15% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 5 | 38% |