Phang, Chee Chin
Foo, Marjorie Wai Yin
Johnson, David W.
Wu, Sin Yan
Hao, Ying
Jayaballa, Mathini
Koniman, Riece
Chan, Choong Meng
Oei, Elizabeth Ley
Chong, Tze Tec
Htay, Htay http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6597-7267
Article History
Received: 22 April 2020
Accepted: 31 August 2020
First Online: 7 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Marjorie WY Foo has received consultancy fees and travel sponsorships from AWAK Technologies Pte Ltd, travel sponsorships from Baxter Healthcare and grants from National Medical Research Council. David Johnson has received consultancy fees, research grants, speaker’s honoraria and travel sponsorships from Baxter Healthcare and Fresenius Medical Care, consultancy fees from Astra Zeneca and AWAK, speaker’s honoraria and travel sponsorships from ONO, and travel sponsorships from Amgen. Htay Htay has received research grant from Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd, SingHealth Pte Ltd and consultancy fees and travel sponsorships from AWAK Technologies Pte Ltd. She has also received speaker’s honoraria and travel sponsorships from Baxter Healthcare. The other authors have no financial conflicts of interest to declare.
: Centralised Institutional Review Board (CIRB) was consulted for approval. The study was granted exemption by CIRB given that the study was conducted for a quality improvement (QI) initiative project to monitor the effect of the new practice on the outcomes (CRBI ref number: 2018/2925).
: The waiver of informed consent was granted from CIRB as the study was conducted for a quality improvement project and was a retrospective non-interventional study.