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Clinical Placebo Can Be Defined Positively: Implications for Informed Consent
Azgad Gold1, Pesach Lichtenberg2
1a Beer Yaakov Mental Health Center.
The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB
|October 20, 2015
Summary
No abstract available in PubMed .
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