Witowski, Jan
Budzyński, Andrzej
Grochowska, Anna
Ballard, David H.
Major, Piotr
Rubinkiewicz, Mateusz
Złahoda-Huzior, Adriana
Popiela, Tadeusz J.
Wierdak, Mateusz
Pędziwiatr, Michał http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9073-2667
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego (0054/DIA/2018/47)
Article History
Received: 2 August 2019
Revised: 28 August 2019
Accepted: 11 October 2019
First Online: 26 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Jan Witowski.
: Dr. Ballard receives salary support from National Institutes of Health TOP-TIER grant T32-EB021955.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper. Methodology regarding statistics was reviewed internally by authors with experience in biostatistics.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained. Approval was obtained from the local IRB of Jagiellonian University Medical College with decision number 122.6120.81.2017.
: 15 out of 19 patients have been previously reported in our paper: Witowski J, Wake N, Grochowska A, et al (2019) Investigating accuracy of 3D printed liver models with computed tomography. Quant Imaging Med Surg 9:43–52, DOI: 10.21037/qims.2018.09.16. However, this prior article dealt with investigating precision of models, whereas in this manuscript we report on clinical impact. We did not report on decision-making or clinical outcomes previously.
: • Prospective• Observational• Performed at one institution