Patel, Nisha http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8061-0113
Mohanaruban, Aruchuna
Ashrafian, Hutan
Le Roux, Carel
Byrne, James
Mason, John
Hopkins, James
Kelly, Jamie
Teare, Julian
Funding for this research was provided by:
Imperial College London
Article History
First Online: 15 February 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Nisha Patel, Hutan Ashrafian, James Hopkins, Jamie Kelly, Carel Le Roux and James Byrne have no conflicts of interest. The travel fees of Aruchuna Mohanaruban and Julian Teare were provided by GI Dynamics, Inc. GI Dynamics provided grants for the study to the employing institution of John Mason and provided data monitoring.
: 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. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.