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Do Certain Countries Produce Only Positive Results? A Systematic Review of Controlled Trials
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- Authors
- Vickers, A., Goyal, N., Harland, R., & Rees, R.
- Venue
- Controlled Clinical Trials
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-04
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 159-166
- ISSN
- 0197-2456 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2093541354
- Cited by
- 683
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 5.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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