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Systematic reviews and the Cochrane Collaboration: improving the evidence-base for all psychiatric treatments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Rachel Churchill
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 137 - 145
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