Authors' reply to Gøtzsche and Hamilton

Affiliations

¹ Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
² RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

Comment

Halle R Amick et al. BMJ. 2016.

. 2016 Feb 10:352:i617.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.i617.

¹ Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
² RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

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