Tomlinson, Tracy M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2469-3967
Johnson, Alexandra M.
Edwards, Alexandra M.
Gross, Gilad A.
Mostello, Dorothea J.
Article History
Received: 6 June 2020
Accepted: 24 August 2020
First Online: 8 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest or competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research. This study was approved by the Saint Louis University Institutional Review Board (no. 29480).
: For this type of study formal consent is not required. A waiver of consent was approved, because the study involved validation of a prediction index using anonymized medical chart data that had been routinely collected. The only risk to patients was potential breach of confidentiality which was minimized by use of a password-protected database and a code to protect patient confidentiality. The key to the code was kept separate from the data and destroyed at the completion of the data analysis.