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Toh et al. Respond to "Compromise or Compromising?"
1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2 Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA
Correspondence to Sengwee Toh, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA (e-mail: swtoh@hsph.harvard.edu).
Received for publication November 21, 2007. Accepted for publication November 27, 2007.
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We thank Dr. Howards for her commentary (1). Our study (2) did not attempt to either credit or discredit the usefulness of automated databases in reproductive research but to raise and quantify the impact of one particular methodological concern: the ability of databases