Development of a highly sensitive search strategy for the retrieval of reports of controlled trials using PubMed.

By K. Robinson, K. Dickersin. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2002

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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science, Molecular Biology, Statistics and Probability

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In History and Philosophy of Science

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