Sebastian, Natasha
Czuzoj-Shulman, Nicholas
Spence, Andrea R.
Abenhaim, Haim A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7001-7153
Article History
Received: 20 December 2019
Accepted: 28 March 2020
First Online: 3 May 2020
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 this data if requested.
: This study exclusively used data from an existing administrative database. This data was publicly available; hence, according to the Tri-Council Policy statement (2010), institutional review board approval was not required.
: This study used 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.