19.06.2023 | CORRESPONDENCE
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse
Erschienen in: European Journal of Epidemiology | Ausgabe 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. …Anzeige