Ahamad, Anesa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-4495
Salenius, Sharon
Ross, Rudi
Selvaraj, Raj
Fernandez, Eduardo
Article History
Received: 19 November 2018
Accepted: 30 July 2019
First Online: 12 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No funding was received for this study.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of The Office for Human Research Protections of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008, and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This was a retrospective study and was approved by an appropriate ethics committee: an institutional Review Board.
: Statement of informed consent was not applicable since the manuscript does not contain any patient data. This was a retrospective study. Prior to embarking on this study, an Institutional Review Board (IRB) reviewed the proposal and study description and granted a waiver of the requirement for individuals to provide signed consent for retrospective review of case files that was the procedure involved in this study.