Drug safety assessment in clinical trials: methodological challenges and opportunities

Sonal Singh1, Yoon K. Loke2
1Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
2Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

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