Ahmed, Nasim
Greenberg, Patricia
Haghighi, Kayvon
Article History
Received: 3 September 2019
Accepted: 15 November 2019
First Online: 30 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None of the contributing authors have a conflict of interest to disclose, financial or otherwise.
: All procedures followed were accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Review Board of Meridian Health and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. Since the data of NTDB are de-identified patient’s information available to the researchers, the study was exempted from Meridian Health IRB review.
: Given this retrospective study was performed from the de-identified National database from the American College of Surgeons that is available to all researches, this study was exempted from the IRB review as per policy and no informed consent was required.