How to interpret randomised trials of test-treatment combinations: a critical evaluation of research on uterine Doppler test to predict, and aspirin to prevent, pre-eclampsia.

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Published in BJOG on June 01, 2010

Authors

C Fox1, K S Khan, A Coomarasamy

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1: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.

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