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Editorial
. 2010 Apr 27;7(4):e1000269.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000269.

Comparative effectiveness research: challenges for medical journals

Harold C Sox, Mark Helfand, Jeremy Grimshaw, Kay Dickersin; PLoS Medicine Editors; David Tovey, J André Knottnerus, Peter Tugwell
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Comparative effectiveness research: challenges for medical journals

Harold C Sox et al. PLoS Med. .
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The PLoS Medicine Editors' competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLoS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLoS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal). The other authors have declared no competing interests.

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