PLoS Med. 2009 Sep;6(9):e1000111. Epub 2009 Sep 29.

Considering usual medical care in clinical trial design.

Dawson L, Zarin DA, Emanuel EJ, Friedman LM, Chaudhari B, Goodman SN.

Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. dawsonl@niaid.nih.gov

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