It’s time to put the placebo out of our misery

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Volumn 338, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nunn, Robin ^a  

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EID: 70449600463     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b1568     Document Type: Article

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