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Scaling Crowdsourced Health Studies: The Emergence of a new form of Contract Research Organization

Melanie SwanMS Futures Group, PO Box 61258, Palo Alto, CA94306, USA. Tel.: +1 650 681 9482, Fax: +1 541 696 7726, [email protected]
Pages 223-234 | Published online: 06 Mar 2012

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