Decline in effectiveness of antenatal corticosteroids with time to birth: real or artefact?

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Published in BMJ on July 14, 2007

Authors

Simon Gates1, Peter Brocklehurst

Author Affiliations

1: Warwick Medical School Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. s.gates@warwick.ac.uk

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