Practical Tips for Surgical Research: How to Optimize Patient Recruitment

Overview

Journal Can J Surg

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2010 May 29

PMID 20507795

Citations 63

Authors

Achilleas Thoma

Forough Farrokhyar

Leslie McKnight

Mohit Bhandari

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