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. 2004 Aug;63(8):897–900. doi: 10.1136/ard.2004.020727

A historic issue of the Annals: three papers examine paracetamol in osteoarthritis

R Neame 1, W Zhang 1, M Doherty 1
PMCID: PMC1755087  PMID: 15249315

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 Effect size of pain reduction from baseline and 95% confidence interval.

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