Talk:VACTERL association

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about VACTERL association.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

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External links are not required in Wikipedia articles. They are permitted in limited numbers and in accordance with the policies linked above. If you want to include one or more external links in this article, please link directly to a webpage that provides detailed, encyclopedic information about the disease. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

'From January 2003 to January 2013 among 32 infants 15 (46.8%) was diagnosed with VACTERL association.' something is missing from this sentence in the introduction Plch (talk) 01:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

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