Hanrahan, Michael T.
O’Flynn, Anne Marie
McHugh, Sheena M.
Kearney, Peter
Kearney, Patricia M.
Article History
Received: 24 August 2018
Accepted: 10 December 2018
First Online: 5 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: This study was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Cork Teaching Hospitals (CREC) and by the Quality and Risk Management Department of CUH.
: Dr. O’Flynn reports conference attendance and subsistence support from Pfizer pharmaceutical company and speaking honoraria from Menarini and Daiichi Sankyo pharmaceutical companies.No other conflicts of interest are reported.
: 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 was a retrospective audit and for this type of study formal consent is not required.