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Reporting outcomes of randomised controlled trials
  1. Mark R Wilkins
  1. Correspondence to Dr Mark R Wilkins, Cornea and External Disease, Moorfields Eye Hospital, 162 City Road, London EC1V 2PD, UK; mail{at}markwilkins.co.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2011-301424

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