Uncritical use of ineffective medical techniques

Name(s): 
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.
Broader 
Individual unfitness for survival
Excessive prolongation of the dying process
Narrower 
Dangerous foetal genetic testing
Related 
Irreversible coma
Dubious superiority of expensive drugs
Illness requiring hormone replacement therapy
Aggravates 
Excessive use of resources on expensive medical techniques
Insufficient government spending on cost-effective activities [in 5 loops]
Aggravated by 
Heart failure
Ignorance of modern medical techniques
Ineffective self-regulation in the health care sector
Strategy(ies) 
Requiring that expertise meet needs
Using medical techniques
Favouring expensive drugs
Using expensive medical treatments
Criticizing ineffective medical techniques
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems