Addressing overuse and underuse around the world

Affiliations

¹ Lown Institute, Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446, USA. Electronic address: vsaini@lowninstitute.org.
² Lown Institute, Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446, USA; Department of Health Policy, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Lown Institute, Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446, USA; Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Australia.
⁵ Royal College of General Practitioners, London, UK.

Comment

Vikas Saini et al. Lancet. 2017.

. 2017 Jul 8;390(10090):105-107.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32573-9. Epub 2017 Jan 9.

¹ Lown Institute, Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446, USA. Electronic address: vsaini@lowninstitute.org.
² Lown Institute, Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446, USA; Department of Health Policy, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Lown Institute, Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446, USA; Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Australia.
⁵ Royal College of General Practitioners, London, UK.

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Comment in

From universal health coverage to right care for health.
Kleinert S, Horton R. Kleinert S, et al. Lancet. 2017 Jul 8;390(10090):101-102. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32588-0. Epub 2017 Jan 9. Lancet. 2017. PMID: 28077231 No abstract available.
Vikas Saini: a career protecting patients from the excesses of medicine.
Lenzer J. Lenzer J. BMJ. 2017 Oct 24;359:j4753. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j4753. BMJ. 2017. PMID: 29066465 No abstract available.

Evidence for underuse of effective medical services around the world.
Glasziou P, Straus S, Brownlee S, Trevena L, Dans L, Guyatt G, Elshaug AG, Janett R, Saini V. Glasziou P, et al. Lancet. 2017 Jul 8;390(10090):169-177. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30946-1. Epub 2017 Jan 9. Lancet. 2017. PMID: 28077232 Review.
Evidence for overuse of medical services around the world.
Brownlee S, Chalkidou K, Doust J, Elshaug AG, Glasziou P, Heath I, Nagpal S, Saini V, Srivastava D, Chalmers K, Korenstein D. Brownlee S, et al. Lancet. 2017 Jul 8;390(10090):156-168. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32585-5. Epub 2017 Jan 9. Lancet. 2017. PMID: 28077234 Free PMC article. Review.
Drivers of poor medical care.
Saini V, Garcia-Armesto S, Klemperer D, Paris V, Elshaug AG, Brownlee S, Ioannidis JPA, Fisher ES. Saini V, et al. Lancet. 2017 Jul 8;390(10090):178-190. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30947-3. Epub 2017 Jan 9. Lancet. 2017. PMID: 28077235 Review.