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C - Research in Maternal Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

By
Lucy C. Chappell  and
Catherine Nelson-Piercy
Edited by
P. M. Shaughn O'Brien  and
Fiona Broughton Pipkin
P. M. Shaughn O'Brien
Affiliation:
Keele University School of Medicine
Fiona Broughton Pipkin
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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Introduction to Research Methodology for Specialists and Trainees , pp. 226 - 234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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