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. 2015 May 12:350:h2308.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.h2308.

Choosing Wisely in the UK: the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' initiative to reduce the harms of too much medicine

A Malhotra  1 , D Maughan  2 , J Ansell  3 , R Lehman  4 , A Henderson  5 , M Gray  6 , T Stephenson  7 , S Bailey  5
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Choosing Wisely in the UK: the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' initiative to reduce the harms of too much medicine

A Malhotra et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

A Malhotra and colleagues explain how and why a US initiative to get doctors to stop using interventions with no benefit is being brought to the UK

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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

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