When authorship fails. A proposal to make contributors accountable.

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Published in JAMA on August 20, 1997

Authors

D Rennie1, V Yank, L Emanuel

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco 94109, USA.

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