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Erratum: the National Institutes of Health and guidance for reporting preclinical research

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This is an Erratum to BMC Medicine 2015, 13:34, highlighting a corrected references list.

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Authors’ corrected note

Two days after the publication of our paper [1], a reader brought to our attention some problems with our references. The erratum corrects the reference list.

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  1. Moher D, Avey M, Antes G, Altman D. The National Institutes of Health and guidance for reporting preclinical research. BMC Med. 2015;13:34.

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Moher, D., Avey, M., Antes, G. et al. Erratum: the National Institutes of Health and guidance for reporting preclinical research. BMC Med 13, 80 (2015). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12916-015-0321-8

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