Problem
Uncritical use of ineffective medical techniques
Other Names:
Dubious use of expensive health procedures Incidence:
The routine hospital practice of reviving patient whose hearts stop beating costs more than $150,000 per survivor, because most victims never gain the ability to breathe on the own and die on respirators in intensive care units. In a USA hospital study, doctors and nurses were able to revive 58% of cardiac arrest patients using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but only seven patients, or 5%, got well enough to leave the hospital. Narrower Problems:
Dangerous foetal genetic testing Related Problems:
Irreversible comaDubious superiority of expensive drugsIllness requiring hormone replacement therapy Aggravates:
Excessive use of resources on expensive medical techniquesInsufficient government spending on cost-effective activities Strategies:
Requiring that expertise meet needsUsing medical techniquesFavouring expensive drugsUsing expensive medical treatmentsCriticizing ineffective medical techniques Subject(s):
Medicine → Medicine Societal Problems → Ineffectiveness
Health Care → Health
Cybernetics → Cybernetics
Technology → Technical
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
01.01.2000 – 00:00 CET