Missing data in IPF trials: do not let methodological issues undermine a major therapeutic breakthrough.

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  • Gabriel Thabut
  • Bruno Crestani
  • Raphaël Porcher
  • Luca Richeldi
چکیده

Affiliations: Service de pneumologie B et transplantation pulmonaire, Hôpital Bichat, APHP, Paris, France. INSERM U1152, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France. Service de pneumologie A, Hôpital Bichat, APHP, Paris, France. Centre d’épidémiologie Clinique, Groupe Hospitalier Cochin – Hôtel Dieu, Paris, France. INSERM U1153, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France. National Institute for Health Research Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit and Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The European respiratory journal

دوره 46 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015