Chackowicz, Ariel
Czuzoj-Shulman, Nicholas
Abenhaim, Haim Arie
Article History
Received: 29 March 2018
Accepted: 14 August 2018
First Online: 11 September 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 used exclusively publicly available data; hence, according to the Tri-Council Policy statement (2010), institutional review board approval was not required.
: 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.