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Registering of trials is essential to make sure all results are publicly available and that ethical obligations to participants are met
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- Year
- 2005
- Type
- review
- Volume
- 330
- Issue
- 7497
- Pages
- 956-958
- Citations
- 239
- Access
- Closed
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- 10.1136/bmj.330.7497.956