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Delaying and withholding interventions: ethics and the stepped wedge trial
- Correspondence to Dr Ariella Binik, Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S4K1, Canada; binika{at}mcmaster.ca
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Delaying and withholding interventions: ethics and the stepped wedge trial
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- Received September 4, 2018
- Revised June 12, 2019
- Accepted July 1, 2019
- First published July 24, 2019.
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October 16, 2019
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