Summing up evidence: one answer is not always enough.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  The Lancet

• Publication date

  1998-01-10

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)08468-7PMID 9439507
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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