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Ethics of randomized clinical trials

E J Emanuel¹, W B Patterson

¹Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115-6084, USA. eemanuel@nih.gov

Journal of Clinical Oncology : Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

|January 24, 1998

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