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Doing the Best We Can - Review of Archie Cochrane’s Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2007

Richard Ashcroft
Affiliation:
Institute of Health Sciences Education, Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, 2 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK E-mail: r.ashcroft@qmul.ac.uk
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