Tish, S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1203-8669
Krpata, D.
AlMarzooqi, R.
Huang, L.-C.
Phillips, S.
Fafaj, A.
Tastaldi, L.
Alkhatib, H.
Zolin, S.
Petro, C.
Rosen, M.
Prabhu, A.
Article History
Received: 7 September 2019
Accepted: 4 January 2020
First Online: 20 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Author MR reports receiving salary support for role as medical director of the non-profit AHSQC, relevant to the work, as well as board membership of Ariste Medical and grants to the Cleveland Clinic Institution from Intuitive, Pacira, and Miromatrix, outside the submitted work. Author AP reports grants to the Cleveland Clinic Institution from Intuitive, and personal fees from MedTronic and Bard Davol, outside the submitted work. Author DK reports educational grants to the Cleveland Clinic Institution, outside of the submitted work. Authors LC and SP report that the AHSQC has contracted with Vanderbilt Biostatistics to provide support for AHSQC projects and the work provided was performed under the umbrella of the AHSQC-Vanderbilt Biostatistics collaboration plan, relevant to the work. Authors LT and AF report resident research grants from the AHSQC, outside the submitted work. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures related to this study were compliant with current US law. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.
: The project only involved analysis of exisitng de-identified data, informed concent was waived.