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Jandhyala, R. Comment on: “Patient Registries: An Underused Resource for Medicines Evaluation: Operational Proposals for Increasing the Use of Patient Registries in Regulatory Assessments”. Drug Saf 42, 1515–1516 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-019-00862-x
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