Tomlinson, Tracy M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2469-3967
Mostello, Dorothea J.
Lim, Kee-Hak
Pritchard, Jennifer S.
Gross, Gil
Article History
Received: 9 October 2017
Accepted: 21 March 2018
First Online: 26 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: For this type of study formal consent is not required. Ethics approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board at South Shore Hospital (Weymouth, MA) on 4/10/2012 (SSH-ID#12-006). A waiver of consent was approved because the study involved the development of a prediction index using anonymised medical chart data that had been routinely collected. The only risk to patients was potential breach of confidentiality which was minimized by use of a password-protected database and a code to protect patient confidentiality. The key to the code was kept separate from the data and destroyed at the completion of the data analysis.