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Correspondence
Pragmatic trials: how to adjust for the ‘Hawthorne effect’?
  1. George N Konstantinou1,2
  1. 1Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 424 General Military Training Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  2. 2Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Immunology Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr George N Konstantinou, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 424 General Military Training Hospital, 21 Sirou Str, Thessaloniki, Greece; gnkonstantinou{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200657

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      Thorax 2011; 67 562-562 Published Online First: 23 Aug 2011. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200870