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Comment
. 2014 Jun 9;17(1):19112.
doi: 10.7448/IAS.17.1.19112. eCollection 2014.

The perils of conducting meta-analyses of observational data

Guy Harling  1 , S V Subramanian  2
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The perils of conducting meta-analyses of observational data

Guy Harling et al. J Int AIDS Soc. .
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