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Jack W O'Sullivan1, Amitava Banerjee2, Carl Heneghan3

  • 1Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
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