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Comment
. 2023 Jul;202(2):438-439.
doi: 10.1111/bjh.18858. Epub 2023 May 23.

Response to Knight and Nelson-Piercy 'Clarity of guidelines concerning the care of pregnant women is lost by the use of de-sexed language'

Will Lester  1 , Niki Walker  2 , Etienne Ciantar  3 , Anita Banerjee  4 , Johanna Trinder  5 , Julia Anderson  6 , Kenneth Hodson  7 , Lorna Swan  2 , Charlotte Bradbury  8 , Juliette Anderson-Brookes  9 , Kailash Bhatia  10
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Response to Knight and Nelson-Piercy 'Clarity of guidelines concerning the care of pregnant women is lost by the use of de-sexed language'

Will Lester et al. Br J Haematol. 2023 Jul.
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