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Clinical Trials: New Endpoints

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Background. The Western community is currently increasingly involved in the problems of patients with chronic diseases. The wish to deal with such problems gives rise to new endpoints in medical research.

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Cleophas, T.J. (1999). Clinical Trials: New Endpoints. In: Human Experimentation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4663-0_8

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