Luc, Mireille
Corriveau, Hélène
Boire, Gilles
Filiatrault, Johanne
Beaulieu, Marie-Claude
Dagenais, Pierre
Gaboury, Isabelle http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2881-4714
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (201111PHE-267395-PHE-CFDA-01003-001)
Merck (51996)
Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (267395)
Article History
Received: 21 June 2019
Accepted: 31 July 2019
First Online: 9 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: We wish to confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcomes. Dr Boire would like to declare that, in the past 2 years, he has received funding from Merck Canada and from Amgen Canada for other research projects, as well as a remuneration from Merck Canada for a conference.
: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke on January 8th, 2013, and by relevant local ethics committees (Comité d’éthique de la recherche et de l’évaluation des technologies de la santé de l’Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, CÉR du CSSS du Sud de Lanaudière, Comité d’éthique de la recherche du CSSS-IUGS, and Comité d’éthique de la recherche du CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal; Comité d’éthique de la recherche de l’Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, May 8th, 2013; CÉR du CSSS du Nord de Lanaudière and CÉR du CSSS du Roché Percé, October 31st, 2013; and Comité d’éthique de la recherche sur les sujets humains du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal, November 20th, 2013). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. For confidentiality reasons, each study site has been represented by a number.