The C-Word: The More We Discuss It, the Less Dirty It Sounds

Affiliations

¹ Miguel A. Hernán is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA.

Comment

Miguel Hernán. Am J Public Health. 2018 May.

. 2018 May;108(5):625-626.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304392.

¹ Miguel A. Hernán is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA.

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