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Several aspects in study design need further consideration
  1. Cheng-Bei Zhou,
  2. Jing-Yuan Fang
  1. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine Renji Hospital, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Gene, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, China
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jing-Yuan Fang, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine Renji Hospital, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Gene, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai, 200001, China; jingyuanfang{at}sjtu.edu.cn

https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2017-315692

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    • Contributors Written by C-BZ. Revised by J-YF.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

    • Correction notice This article has been corrected since it published Online First. The order of the authors has been corrected.