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Time to Rectify Colorblindness in Medical Research with Standardized Cohort Reporting
Jessica T Wen1, Tarik F Massoud1
1Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.
The American Journal of Medicine
|February 8, 2023
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