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Volume 59, Issue 11 , Pages 1127-1133 , November 2006

The Trial Protocol Tool: the PRACTIHC software tool that supported the writing of protocols for pragmatic randomized controlled trials

Shaun Treweek
- Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee, DD2 4BF Dundee, UK
- Corresponding author. University of Dundee, Tayside Centre for General Practice, Mackenzie Building, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee DD2 4AD, United Kingdom.
Kirsty McCormack
- Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Bldg, Foresterhill, AB25 2ZD Aberdeen, UK
Edgardo Abalos
- Centro Rosarino De Estudios Perinatales (CREP), Pueyrredon 985, (2000) Rosario, Argentina
Marion Campbell
- Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Bldg, Foresterhill, AB25 2ZD Aberdeen, UK
Craig Ramsay
- Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Bldg, Foresterhill, AB25 2ZD Aberdeen, UK
Merrick Zwarenstein
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada
on behalf of the PRACTIHC collaboration

,Accepted 24 December 2005.

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