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Vol. 148 No. 2526 (2018)

Look before you SPRINT: look at the data and look at the consequences

  • Alain Nordmann
  • Michael Fernandes
  • Marcel GM Olde Rikkert
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;148:w14629
Published
01.07.2018

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