Kindratt, Tiffany B.
Dallo, Florence J.
Roddy, Juliette
Funding for this research was provided by:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Not Applicable)
Article History
Received: 13 December 2017
Revised: 19 February 2018
Accepted: 23 February 2018
First Online: 9 March 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: 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 institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Ethical approval was obtaining by the National Center for Health Statistics prior to initial data collection. This study analyses de-identified public-use data. For this type of study, formal consent is not required. This designation was confirmed by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects, who deemed all analyses of this de-identified dataset as exempt from human subjects review.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study was obtained prior to initial data collection by the National Center for Health Statistics. This study analyses de-identified public-use data. For this type of study, formal consent is not required.