title: A is for aphorism - if many treatments are used for a disease, all are insufficient.
abstract: The aphorism, 'If many treatments are used for a disease, all are insufficient' seems self evident. If any treatments were beneficial ('sufficient' in the aphorism), there would be no need to search for new treatments and therefore the presence of many available treatments might be a marker for none of them being effective.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. gcooke@bond.edu.au
authors.forename: Georga
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cooke
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Beller
authors.forename: Tammy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Del Mar
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D019468:Disease Management; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans