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Learning about clinical trials: the Western multicentre,randomized,double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial on the effect of caffeine on alertness and cardiovascular parameters

TRULS OSTBYE CHERYL PAUSE ORTRUN MEISSNER BRIAN FEAGAN JAMES E. BROWN HOWARD R. STRASBERG JASON DODGE Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Department of Pharmacology, University of Transkei, Republic of South Africa
Pages 127-132 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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