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RCTs in psychiatry: challenges and the future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Rebecca Walwyn  and
Simon Wessely
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 127 - 131
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