Vohra, Rini
Madhavan, Suresh
Sambamoorthi, Usha
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U54GM104942)
Article History
First Online: 13 January 2016
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: There was no requirement of an informed consent, since the discharge-level data is publicly available and did not involve direct participation of patients. The primary author of the study has completed a data user agreement with the HCUP-NEDS, AHRQ to obtain the de-identified dataset.