Clinical Trials in Paediatric Haematology-oncology: Are Future Successes Threatened by the EU Directive on the Conduct of Clinical Trials?

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Journal Arch Dis Child

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2007 Oct 24

PMID 17954482

Citations 3

Authors

Chris Mitchell

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