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Why Should Patients be Matched to Treatments, How May It Occur, and How Can It be Studied?

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A main objective of this workshop is to answer the question: “What else do we need to know?” However it is convenient to state here some propositions the truth of which I believe has been established. The evidence for this view is set out elsewhere (Garrow 1988).

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Garrow, J. (1995). Why Should Patients be Matched to Treatments, How May It Occur, and How Can It be Studied?. In: Allison, D.B., Pi-Sunyer, F.X. (eds) Obesity Treatment. NATO ASI Series, vol 278. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1901-0_11

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