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Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare (2nd edn)
  1. Neelima Deshpande
  1. Associate Specialist in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK; deshnp@doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2013-100604

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