An introduction to performing therapeutic trials

Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 59-65

  Sackett, Dave ^a  

^a Kilgore S Trout Research and Education Centre   (Canada)

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