PErineal Assessment and Repair Longitudinal Study (PEARLS): protocol for a matched pair cluster trial.

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Published in BMC Pregnancy Childbirth on February 25, 2010

Authors

Debra E Bick1, Christine Kettle, Sue Macdonald, Peter W Thomas, Robert K Hills, Khaled M K Ismail

Author Affiliations

1: King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London, UK. debra.bick@kcl.ac.uk

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