Zou, Yuanshu
Szczesniak, Rhonda
Teeters, Alexis
Conard, Lee Ann E.
Grossoehme, Daniel H. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5654-0693
Article History
Accepted: 19 March 2018
First Online: 21 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by the instituion's Institutional Review Board. A waiver of informed consent was granted becuase the data were routinely collected in clinc and their inclusion in this study presneted no more than minimal risk and involved no procedure for whcih written consent is normally required outside of the research context. 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.
: Informed consent was not obtained because deidentified data, collected in the course of routine clinical care, was used for the analyses described in this article.