Hussan, Hisham http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8646-8370
Drosdak, Alyssa
Le Roux, Melissa
Patel, Kishan
Porter, Kyle
Clinton, Steven K.
Focht, Brian
Noria, Sabrena
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (UL1TR002733)
Article History
First Online: 23 October 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: We have the institutional IRB approval for this retrospective study as documented in our methods. The Ohio State University IRB approved the waiver of informed consent since this is a retrospective chart review that involves no interaction with study participants; and the study accessed information which would normally be accessed during clinical care for these patients.Thus, the risk for potential harm from accessing this information or inadvertent disclosure of this information in the course of the research is minimal. Also, it would not be practicable to locate the patients and obtain consent. Many patients are no longer being seen at Ohio State or may be deceased. Finally, this was a de-identified study that contained no identifiable information. Thus, no identifying information is available in the article.