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When researchers stumble, clinicians fall and patients suffer

Lars-Petter Granan

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Chronic pain medicine, clinical knowledge, clinical relevance, cognitive biases, ethics, placebo effects, practice guidelines, randomized control trials, statistical significance

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v4i3.1192

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