Bjornson, Candice http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9279-2273
Chan, Parco
Li, Abby
Paes, Bosco
Lanctôt, Krista L.
Mitchell, Ian
Funding for this research was provided by:
AbbVie (Unknown number - investigator initiated grant)
Article History
Received: 23 January 2018
Accepted: 6 March 2018
First Online: 19 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: CB received financial support from AbbVie International for travel to an international conference to present the findings of this study. A.L, B.P, I.M, and K.L. have received investigator initiated research funding or received compensation as advisors or lecturers from AbbVie Corporation and MedImmune. PC has no conflicts of interest to declare. No honorarium, grant, or other form of payment was given to anyone to produce the manuscript.
: The study was approved by the research ethics board of the Alberta Children’s Hospital. The CARESS study was reviewed and approved by each site’s respective research ethics board for compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki principles and the standards of Good Clinical Practice.
: Informed consent was obtained for the PVZ subjects by each of the 32 recruitment centers across Canada who participated in the CARESS project.