Nourallah, Basil
Zeiler, Frederick A.
Calviello, Leanne
Smielewski, Peter
Czosnyka, Marek
Menon, David K.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cambridge Commonwealth Trust
Seventh Framework Programme (602150)
National Institute for Health Research
University of Manitoba
Article History
Received: 5 March 2018
Accepted: 18 April 2018
First Online: 7 May 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: FAZ has received salary support for dedicated research time, during which this project was partially completed. Such salary support came from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship, the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada-Harry S. Morton Travelling Fellowship in Surgery and the University of Manitoba Clinician Investigator Program.DKM has consultancy agreements and/or research collaborations with GlaxoSmithKline Ltd.; Ornim Medical; Shire Medical Ltd.; Calico Inc.; Pfizer Ltd.; Pressura Ltd.; Glide Pharma Ltd.; and NeuroTraumaSciences LLC.MC and PS have financial interest in a part of licencing fee for ICM+ software (Cambridge Enterprise Ltd., UK).
: 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.
: All data was fully anonymised, and no attempt was made to re-access clinical records for additional information. As such, formal patient or proxy consent was not required. Within our institution, patient data may be collected without consent, as long as it remains fully anonymised, with no method of tracing this back to an individual patient. Such requests for data curation in our TBI population have gone through our local Research Committee, as part of an NCCU protocol (Protocol #30), achieving approval for ongoing collection of such data, without the need for formal patient or proxy consent.