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Smith R, Roberts I (1997)

An amnesty for unpublished trials. BMJ 315:622.
Example of one of the many editorials that were published in medical journals in 1997 to announce the “Medical Editors Trials Amnesty (META)”, which invited readers to submit information on trials that had not been published.

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Smith R, Roberts I (1997). An amnesty for unpublished trials. BMJ 315:622.

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