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Guidelines for Studies that Involve Placebo Controls: The Massachusetts Approach

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    Paul Barreira

  2. The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, USA

    Melvin Albert, Frederick Altaffer & Raymond B. Flannery Jr

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Barreira, P., Albert, M., Altaffer, F. et al. Guidelines for Studies that Involve Placebo Controls: The Massachusetts Approach. Adm Policy Ment Health 28, 311–318 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011189614628

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