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What will happen to peer review?
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ABSTRACT The author summarizes the benefits and disadvantages of peer review and discusses a number of examples of difficulties with it that have arisen in the medical literature. In the absence of a generally accepted alternative, she sets out the conditions under which the present system should be operated so as to achieve its purpose.