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Challenges to studying population effects of medical treatments

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    David B. Richardson & Alexander P. Keil

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Richardson, D.B., Keil, A.P. Challenges to studying population effects of medical treatments. Eur J Epidemiol 33, 365–368 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-018-0394-8

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