Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 990-994 , July 2002

Development of an internet-based protocol to facilitate randomized clinical trials in pediatric surgery

Presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, California, October 19-21, 2001.

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☆ Supported by the Glaser Pediatric Research Network. The NEC STEPS study is a multicenter randomized clinical trial supported by NIH ROI HD 38462.

☆☆ Address reprint requests to R. Lawrence Moss, MD, Division of Pediatric Surgery, 333 Cedar St, PO Box 208062, New Haven, CT 06520-8062.

PII: S0022-3468(02)00010-6

doi: 10.1053/jpsu.2002.33826

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 990-994 , July 2002

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