The use of deception in public health behavioral intervention trials: a case study of three online alcohol trials.

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Published in Am J Bioeth on January 01, 2013

Authors

Jim McCambridge1, Kypros Kypri, Preben Bendtsen, John Porter

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1: a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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