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Limitations of double-blind trials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

D. B. Double*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry University of Sheffield Northern General Hospital Sheffield S5 7AU
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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