Brown, David W. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8406-5957
Binney, Geoffrey
Gauthier, Zachary
Blume, Elizabeth D.
Article History
Received: 23 September 2019
Accepted: 11 December 2019
First Online: 21 December 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
: The Institutional Review Board of Boston Children’s Hospital (IRB00000352) reviewed the protocol and determined that it qualified as exempt from the requirements of 45 CFR 46. This determination was made because it was limited to research activities in which the only involvement of human subjects was in the following category: Secondary research for which consent was not required as the information was recorded in such a manner that the identity of subjects cannot be readily ascertained directly or through identifiers linked to the subjects and the investigators did not contact or re-identify the subjects.
: The Institutional Review Board of Boston Children’s Hospital determined that informed consent was not required for this protocol as explained above.