Harris, Sarah Louise
More, Kiran
Dixon, Bronwyn
Troughton, Richard
Pemberton, Chris
Horwood, John
Ellis, Nicola
Austin, Nicola
Funding for this research was provided by:
Freemasons of New Zealand Paediatric Fellowship
Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust
Article History
Received: 23 October 2017
Revised: 8 January 2018
Accepted: 9 January 2018
First Online: 19 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Harris received salary for this study from the Freemasons of New Zealand administered by the University of Otago as a Child Health Fellowship.Assoc Prof Austin received a grant from the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust to fund the NTproBNP testing.There are no conflicts of interest to declare.
: Ethical approval: 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 Otago Human Ethics Committee approved this study (12/298).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants (parental consent as subjects are children) included in the study.