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. 2021 Sep 20:374:n1323.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.n1323.

Net zero healthcare: a call for clinician action

Jodi D Sherman  1 , Forbes McGain  2   3   4 , Melissa Lem  5 , Frances Mortimer  6 , Wayne B Jonas  7   8   9 , Andrea J MacNeill  10
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Net zero healthcare: a call for clinician action

Jodi D Sherman et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Health professionals are well positioned to effect change by reshaping individual practice, influencing healthcare organisations, and setting clinical standards, argue Jodi Sherman and colleagues

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

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