Flutterby™! : Placebo Surgery 2017-07-20 17:49:53.082154+02

Placebo Surgery

2017-07-20 17:49:53.082154+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

FiveThirtyEight: Surgery Is One Hell Of A Placebo:

A 2014 review of 53 trials that compared elective surgical procedures to placebos found that sham surgeries provided some benefit in 74 percent of the trials and worked as well as the real deal in about half.¹. Consider the middle-aged guy going in for surgery to treat his knee pain. Arthroscopic knee surgery has been a common orthopedic procedure in the United States, with about 692,000 of them performed in 2010, ² but the procedure has proven no better than a sham when done to address degenerative wear and tear, particularly on the meniscus.³.

Via Sensible Endowment.

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