Redundancy and methodological issues in articles on COVID-19
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Dino Papes
Department of Surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Dino Papes, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Kispaticeva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
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Search for more papers by this authorAna Jeroncic
Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Search for more papers by this authorElizabeta Ozimec
Department on Neonatology, Holy Spirit Clinical Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
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Dino Papes
Department of Surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Dino Papes, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Kispaticeva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorAna Jeroncic
Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Search for more papers by this authorElizabeta Ozimec
Department on Neonatology, Holy Spirit Clinical Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
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All authors state that they have no conflict of interest.
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