Kumar, Ashish
Goswami, Ritesh
Masih, Markas
Kakkar, Naveen
Article History
Received: 18 January 2018
Accepted: 31 July 2018
First Online: 6 August 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The author declares that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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. No patient/subject identifying information has been disclosed in the manuscript. No patient/subject intervention was done and the subjects were not exposed to any risks during the study.
: Since the study involved a retrospective review of data only from routine testing offered by the laboratory, separate informed consent was not taken for the study. Repeat sampling was done as part of routine protocol in case of suspected pre- analytic problem. “For this type of study formal consent is not required.”