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Research ethics
Non-equivalent stringency of ethical review in the Baltic States: a sign of a systematic problem in Europe?
- Correspondence to Eugenijus Gefenas, Department of Medical History and Ethics, Vilnius University, M.K.Ciurlionio St. 21/27, Vilnius LT-03101, Lithuania; eugenijus.gefenas{at}mf.vu.lt
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Non-equivalent stringency of ethical review in the Baltic States: a sign of a systematic problem in Europe?
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- Received December 14, 2009
- Revised April 8, 2010
- Accepted April 12, 2010
- First published July 6, 2010.
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July 06, 2010
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