Why You Need Treatment Scores!

When you do your taxes, you figure out your gross income and net income. Before you undergo a medical treatment, you need to figure out the “gross benefit” and the “net benefit” of that treatment.

Why is this such a big deal? It’s a big deal, because the medical system has never provided Treatment Scores before.

The Treatment Score = the net benefit of the treatment.

Treatment Scores have been a secret, a mystery, unable to be calculated, and have been hidden from you until now (because they are mathematically difficult).

To repeat, the Treatment Score represents the “net treatment benefit for the patient,” which is a long phrase so we simply call it the Treatment Score.

However in the real world:

The Treatment Score = "the net absolute treatment benefit for the patient as determined by the patient during shared decision-making with the physician.”

You can see why we simply call it the Treatment Score!

When you get sick with a disease, you need to review the medical literature for a list of treatments for that disease. In general, the more treatments that exist for a disease, the less effective the treatments are. For example, there are 130 treatments for insomnia, because most of the treatments for insomnia don’t work very well.

There are 57 treatments for an acute migraine headache, because most treatments for an acute migraine headache don’t work very well. There are only a few treatments for stage 1 testicular cancer, because those treatments DO WORK WELL.

When you get diagnosed with any disease, for each and every treatment for that disease, you need to figure out the “gross treatment benefit” for patients that have been treated in the past. Then, you need to figure out the “net treatment benefit” for those same patients, which is the Treatment Score.

Physicians Do Not Know Treatment Scores
You would think that physicians could help you with the "net treatment benefit." They can't. A randomized survey across 8 countries demonstrated that physicians do not understand treatment effects. In that study of 531 physicians, up to 80% of physicians could not correctly identify treatment effects. You have to be your own healthcare advocate. You need to ask, "What is the Treatment Score?" You need to lead the revolution for treatment transparency by asking, "What is the Treatment Score?" to every healthcare non-profit organization and every healthcare provider that you can. Call a disease-related non-profit today and ask them for the Treatment Score (the net treatment benefit) for a treatment listed on their website.
(Source: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2015/10/26/cmaj.150430)

It has always been extremely difficult to produce Treatment Scores. Today, programming makes it possible to create Treatment Scores. Search engine technology makes it possible to find the statistics and database technology makes it possible to organize the statistics. Finally, new statistical methods enable us to calculate Treatment Scores. We have invented the technology you need.

What does all this mean for you? It means for the first time in your life you should ask your physician, “What’s the Treatment Score for that?”

Got breast cancer?
Ask for the Treatment Score for every treatment.

Got prostate cancer?
Ask for the Treatment Score for every treatment.

Got pancreatic cancer?
Ask for the Treatment Score for every treatment.

Got lung cancer?
Ask for the Treatment Score for every treatment.

Call a disease-related non-profit organization and ask:
"What's the Treatment Score for every treatment listed on your website?"

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