Truntzer, Jeremy
Mertz, Kevin
Eppler, Sara
Li, Kevin
Gardner, Michael
Kamal, Robin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3011-6712
Article History
Received: 7 May 2018
Accepted: 24 May 2018
First Online: 19 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None of the authors have received funding or financial support for this project nor have any potential sources of conflict of interest.
: This study did not require approval by Stanford’s Internal Review Board as all patient records were de-identified. This study was performed in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and US HIPAA regulations.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
: As this was a retrospective insurance claims review and all patient records were de-identified, informed consent and Internal Review Board approval was not required.