How Feedback Biases Give Ineffective Medical Treatments a Good Reputation

BACKGROUND: Medical treatments with no direct effect (like homeopathy) or that cause harm (like bloodletting) are common across cultures and throughout history. How do such treatments spread and persist? Most medical treatments result in a range of outcomes: some people improve while others deterior...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: de Barra, Mícheál, Eriksson, Kimmo, Strimling, Pontus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications Inc. 2014
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25147101
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.3214

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25147101
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.3214

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