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Comparison of systematic and narrative reviews: the example of the atypical antipsychotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Andrea Cipriani  and
John Geddes
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 146 - 153
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