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Editorial
. 2023 Apr;78(4):521-525.
doi: 10.1111/anae.15831. Epub 2022 Aug 2.

How to write a retrospective observational study

A L Gardner  1 , M Charlesworth  1
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Editorial

How to write a retrospective observational study

A L Gardner et al. Anaesthesia. 2023 Apr.
Free article
No abstract available

Keywords: bias; cohort; confounding; observational.

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