Brem, Meagan J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9036-1277
Shorey, Ryan C.
Anderson, Scott
Stuart, Gregory L.
Article History
First Online: 22 February 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Gregory Stuart conducts psychoeducational treatment groups for patients at Cornerstone of Recovery for a maximum of 4 h per week. None of this research project pertains to any of the psychoeducational groups. Dr. Stuart does not ever do any study recruitment, is not informed which patients do or do not participate in research, and does not mention anything about research to the patients attending groups. Ryan Shorey works as a research consultant at Cornerstone. There is no restriction on what Ryan can publish and his research consultation does not influence the study results in any way. Ryan does not interact with Cornerstone patients. Ryan has reported all his consultation activities to the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and no concern about financial conflict of interest has been raised.
: 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. The University of Tennessee’s Institutional Review Board approved the procedures used in the present study.
: Informed consent to have their de-identified medical records used for research purposes was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.