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Deferral of Consent in Randomized Clinical Trials of Acute Stroke: Ethical, Methodologic, and Practical Challenges
Diederik W J Dippel1, Steven J Warach2
1From the Department of Neurology (D.W.J.D.), Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Department of Neurology (S.J.W.), Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin. d.dippel@erasmusmc.nl.
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