Assessments of Causal Effects—Theoretically Sound, Practically Unattainable, and Clinically Not So Relevant
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.02200213