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Vol. 150 No. 1920 (2020)

Early off-label treatment during pandemics? A dilemma

  • Jan A. Roth
  • Tala Ballouz
  • Roger D. Kouyos
  • Manuel Battegay
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20281
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20281
Published
11.05.2020

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