Making wise choices about low-value health care in the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
² University of Toronto, Canada.
³ Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare, Cochrane Sweden, Sweden.
⁴ Cochrane Denmark, Denmark.
⁵ University of Valparaíso, Cochrane Chile, Chile.
⁶ Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare, Cochrane Denmark, Denmark.
⁷ Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Editorial

Mike Clarke et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021.

. 2021 Sep 22;9(9):ED000153.

doi: 10.1002/14651858.ED000153.

¹ Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
² University of Toronto, Canada.
³ Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare, Cochrane Sweden, Sweden.
⁴ Cochrane Denmark, Denmark.
⁵ University of Valparaíso, Cochrane Chile, Chile.
⁶ Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare, Cochrane Denmark, Denmark.
⁷ Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

No abstract available

Keywords: Covid-19; Low value care; Sustainable Healthcare.

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