Randomized controlled trial: the gold standard or an unobtainable fallacy?

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  European Journal of Orthodontics

• Publication date

  2015-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/ejo/cjv046PMID 26136438
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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