Documenting the evidence: the case of scurvy.

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  • Iain Milne
  • Iain Chalmers
چکیده

Bulletin of the World Health Organization | October 2004, 82 (10) 1 Head of Library and Information Services, Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ, Scotland (email: [email protected]). Correspondence should be sent to this author. 2 Editor, James Lind Library, The James Lind Initiative, Oxford, England. Ref. No. 03-006361 Documenting the evidence: the case of scurvy Iain Milne1 & Iain Chalmers2

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization

دوره 82 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004