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. 2008 May 20;5(5):e113.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050113.

A user's guide to the NINDS rt-PA stroke trial database

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A user's guide to the NINDS rt-PA stroke trial database

Robert J Dachs et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

Robert Dachs and colleagues describe the process for researchers to acquire and decipher the dataset from the original NINDS rt-PA trial.

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