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Bias in the evaluation of antidepressants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Matthew Hotopf  and
Corrado Barbui
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 55 - 57
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