Dolen, Utku
Thornton, Melissa
Tenenbaum, Marissa M.
Aripoli, Allison
Patel, Amy
Cyr, Amy E.
Yan, Yan
Appleton, Catherine M.
Margenthaler, Julie A.
Myckatyn, Terence M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9712-6181
Funding for this research was provided by:
Allergan (IIT-2017-10075)
Article History
Received: 31 December 2019
Accepted: 8 April 2020
First Online: 30 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Marissa M. Tenenbaum has received speaker honoraria and advisory board fees from Allergan, inc. in the last 2 years. She has received advisory board fees from RTI in the last year. Catherine Appleton declares consulting income from WhiteRabbit, Inc. Terence M. Myckatyn has received speaker honoraria and advisory board fees from Allergan, inc. in the last 2 years. Allergan is the company that funded this study via an investigator-initiated grant to Dr. Myckatyn as disclosed above. Dr. Myckatyn has also received advisory board fees from RTI in the last year and also has an active investigator-initiated research grant from RTI which is not related to this work other than the fact that, like the grant from Allergan, investigates topics under the umbrella of breast reconstruction research. Dr. Myckatyn is also a Co-Investigator on a an award from the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), R18 HS026699-01 “Implementing a breast reconstruction decision support tool in diverse practice settings.” This grant is also under the general umbrella of breast reconstruction research but not directly related to topic matter herein. The remaining authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee (the Human Research Protection Office (#201404004) at the Washington University School of Medicine) 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 as regulated by the Human Research Protection Office (#201404004) at the Washington University School of Medicine.