Methods and outcome reporting in the PACE trial--Author's reply

Affiliations

¹ Academic Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College London, Weston Education Centre, Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RJ, UK. Electronic address: trudie.chalder@kcl.ac.uk.
² Department of Biostatistics, King's College London, London, UK.
³ Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University, London, UK.
⁴ Psychological Medicine Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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Trudie Chalder et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2015 Apr.

. 2015 Apr;2(4):e10-1.

doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(15)00114-5. Epub 2015 Mar 31.

¹ Academic Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College London, Weston Education Centre, Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RJ, UK. Electronic address: trudie.chalder@kcl.ac.uk.
² Department of Biostatistics, King's College London, London, UK.
³ Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University, London, UK.
⁴ Psychological Medicine Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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