Forms of care likely to be ineffective

Effectiveness summaries

Pages containing effectiveness summaries classify all interventions evaluated in RHL into six categories based on the degree of their effectiveness as shown below. The purpose of presenting the interventions in this format is to enable readers to determine quickly what the available evidence indicates about each intervention.

• Forms of care that are beneficial
• Forms of care likely to be beneficial
• Forms of care with a trade off
• Forms of care of unknown effectiveness
• Forms of care likely to be ineffective
• Forms of care likely to be harmful