Shechter-Maor, Gil
Czuzoj-Shulman, Nicholas
Spence, Andrea R.
Abenhaim, Haim Arie
Article History
Received: 7 November 2017
Accepted: 29 January 2018
First Online: 15 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors report no conflict of interest. We had full control of all primary data and we agree to allow the Journal to review these data, if requested.
: This study involved humans. These data files are available to the public; therefore, the institutional review board deemed this study to be exempt from ethics approval in accordance with the Tri-Council Policy statement (2010).
: This study used exclusively publicly available data; hence, we did not personally obtain informed consent from study subjects. This would be the responsibility of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), who sponsors the National Inpatient Sample.