Why Do Healthcare Providers Use Ineffective Treatments?

3 common components causing ineffective treatments and a solution

Zachary Walston, PT, DPT, OCS
BeingWell
Published in
2 min readJan 9, 2021

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This narrative review addresses many of the biases and cognitive fallacies that cause healthcare providers to overvalue ineffective treatments. It discusses why clinicians believe ineffective treatments are helpful and why they continue to use them.

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