Murphy, Kathleen M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5840-9384
Nguyen, Vinh
Shin, Ki
Sebastian-Deutsch, Amy
Frieden, Lex
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (H133A110027)
Article History
First Online: 8 February 2016
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Murphy, Nguyen, Shin, Sebastian-Deutsch and Frieden declare that they have no conflict of interest. The six members of the research team were affiliated with four institutions, two of which served as research sites. Dr. Ki Shin is the PI for the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center site. Shin participated in research design, instrument development, IRB approval processes, and was the site liaison. The study’s PI for the work at Memorial Hermann Health System is Lex Frieden. He is a Professor of Health Informatics and Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and of Community and Family Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (Adjunct); Senior Vice President at Memorial Hermann|TIRR Hospital; and Director, Independent Living Research Program (ILRU). Frieden is affiliated with The Southwest ADA Center. Its mission is to promote voluntary compliance with the ADA. The Center is a program of Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU), which is located at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston, the other research site. Frieden participated in research design and provided overall project oversight. Vinh Nguyen, JD, MBA is its project director. Nguyen participated in instrument development, IRB and subject recruitment. Lead author Murphy is a project director at SEDL an affiliate of the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Since 1991, SEDL and the Southwest ADA Center have been collaborators on research projects funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), renamed in 2015 to the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). She was involved in all aspects of this study and led the analyses presented here. The research team for the cancer survivor survey also includes Amy S. Deutsch, DNP, RN, CNS, AOCNS, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse with Cancer Services at Memorial Hermann Health System. She participated in instrument development, IRB, subject recruitment and data interpretation.
: 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 2000 (5).
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.