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. 2018 Feb 5:360:j5910.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.j5910.

Big data and medical research in China

Luxia Zhang  1   2 , Haibo Wang  3   4 , Quanzheng Li  5 , Ming-Hui Zhao  6   7 , Qi-Min Zhan  8
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Big data and medical research in China

Luxia Zhang et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Luxia Zhang and colleagues discuss the development of big data in Chinese healthcare and the opportunities for its use in medical research

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that the article was funded by the World Health Organization (WHO Reference 2014/435380-0), the National Key Technology R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2016YFC1305400), and the University of Michigan Health System-Peking University Health Science Center Joint Institute for Translational and Clinical Research (BMU20140479).

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