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Musculoskeletal medicine/sports medicine
  1. D MacAuley
  1. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5JS, UK; domhnall.macauley@ntlworld.com

    https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.20.6.500

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