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I think that would be a stastical question. Theranos recalled 10's of thousands of potentially inaccurate blood tests. Some of these were presumably the deci
by dzdt 10y ago
I think that would be a stastical question. Theranos recalled 10's of thousands of potentially inaccurate blood tests. Some of these were presumably the deciding factor in a treatment decision. Wild guess : 10% of the time a single test result may change the treatment decision. So that is order of 1000's of patients getting different treatment than their doctors would have chosen. Wild guess : 10% of unnesessary treatments have undesirable side-effects, 1% of missed treatments have an avoidable bad outcome. So my wild math is order of magnitude of 1000s of patients with unnessary expense, 100s of patients with unnesessary side effects, 10s of patients with avoidable bad outcomes.
- yitchelle 10y agoUsing statistics for this type of question always bugs me, but there is no other way to see the impact. Using stats has an effect of reducing the seriousness of an failure. I mean, we are dealing with life, health and death, serious stuff.