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Comment
. 2021 Jan-Dec:20:15347354211025626.
doi: 10.1177/15347354211025626.

Letter: The Choice of Control Conditions in Animal-Assisted Intervention Research

Jessica Chubak  1 , Rene Hawkes  1 , Christi Dudzik  2   3 , Rebecca A Ziebell  1 , Karen J Sherman  1
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Comment

Letter: The Choice of Control Conditions in Animal-Assisted Intervention Research

Jessica Chubak et al. Integr Cancer Ther. 2021 Jan-Dec.
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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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