Yang, Tze Wei Wilson
Johari, Yazmin
Burton, Paul R
Earnest, Arul
Shaw, Kalai
Hare, James L
Brown, Wendy A
Article History
First Online: 15 April 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Professor Brown received grants from Johnson and Johnson, grants from Medtronic, grants from GORE, personal fees from GORE, grants from Applied Medical, grants from Apollo Endosurgery, grants and personal fees from Novo Nordisc and personal fees from Merck Sharpe and Dohme, outside the submitted work. The rest of the authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The Alfred Health Ethics Committee approved the prospective collection of data from the Upper Gastrointestinal and General Surgery database (Project ref. no. 544/18).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.For this type of study, formal consent is not required.Informed consent does not apply.