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Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse

Authors: Jasper M Kampman, Oren Turgman, Ward H van der Ven, Jeroen Hermanides, Nicolaas H Sperna Weiland, Markus W Hollmann, Sjoerd Repping

Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology | Issue 8/2023

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The excessive growth of the health sector has created an industry that, while promoting health, is now itself responsible for a substantial environmental footprint. Medical overuse is a major concern, which strains financial means, available personnel, and aggravates the environmental footprint of healthcare [1]. It simultaneously leads to too much care for healthy people, and not enough care for the sick [2]. It worsens health inequality and harms both people that need treatment, and those that do not. …

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Title: Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse
Authors: Jasper M Kampman
Oren Turgman
Ward H van der Ven
Jeroen Hermanides
Nicolaas H Sperna Weiland
Markus W Hollmann
Sjoerd Repping
Publication date: 19-06-2023
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Keywords: Care
Climate Change
Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology / Issue 8/2023
Print ISSN: 0393-2990
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-023-01025-0

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