“Too much medicine”: Insights and explanations from economic theory and research

Increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the problem of “too much medicine”, whereby patients receive unnecessary investigations and treatments providing them with little or no benefit, but which expose them to risks of harm. Despite this phenomenon potentially constituting an inefficie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hensher, M., Tisdell, J., Zimitat, Craig
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon Press Ltd. 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55002