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Video Q&A: Patients leading the direction of clinical research - an interview with Paul Wicks

Author: Paul Wicks

Published in: BMC Medicine | Issue 1/2014

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In this video Q&A, we talk to Paul Wicks about the emergence of participant-led research, and discuss how this field may be expected to develop in the near future, particularly with regard to personalized medicine.

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The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/12/118/prepub

Title: Video Q&A: Patients leading the direction of clinical research - an interview with Paul Wicks
Author: Paul Wicks
Publication date: 01-12-2014
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: BMC Medicine / Issue 1/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1741-7015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0118-1

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