Pragmatic clinical trials

Complementary Therapies in Medicine - Tập 12 - Trang 136-140 - 2004
Hugh MacPherson1,2
1Foundation for Traditional Chinese Medicine, York, UK
2Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK

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