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NCCHD Aims to Build “Million-Person Database” on Pediatric Patients; Could Lead to Improvements in Pharmacotherapy

April 6, 2016

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The pediatric medical information collection system, which started operations in March at the National Center for Child Health and Development (NCCHD), is expected to build a database on roughly one million children. This child-specific database, which is rare worldwide, will…

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