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Correspondence
Authors’ response to Murray et al
  1. Amelia O Clive1,2,
  2. Brennan C Kahan3,
  3. Nick A Maskell1,2
  1. 1 Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  2. 2 North Bristol Lung Centre, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK
  3. 3 Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Nick A Maskell, Academic Respiratory Unit, Second Floor, Learning and Research Building, Southmead Hospital, University of Bristol, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK; nick.maskell{at}bristol.ac.uk.

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-206247

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors AOC, BCK and NAM coauthored this response letter.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Ethics approval Local ethics committees in Bristol, Perth and Amsterdam.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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