Young, Amanda Ellen
Besen, Elyssa
Willetts, Joanna
Article History
First Online: 25 January 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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.
: The requirement for informed consent was waived by the reviewing IRB (NEIRB—ExternalRef removed). The study involved an examination of data drawn from an insurer’s administrative database. The risk to study subjects was no more than minimal and the research could not effectively and practicably be carried out without the waiver.