Lavie, Anat
Czuzoj-Shulman, Nicholas
Spence, Andrea R.
Barrett, Jon
Abenhaim, Haim Arie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7001-7153
Article History
Received: 26 January 2021
Accepted: 22 May 2021
First Online: 30 July 2021
Declarations
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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. These data were 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.