Strong, Andrew T.
Sharma, Gautam
Tu, Chao
Aminian, Ali
Young, James B.
Rodriguez, John
Kroh, Matthew
Article History
First Online: 6 March 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: The Institutional Review Board approved this study under exempt status.
: Andrew Strong has no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose pertinent to this work.Gautam Sharma has no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose pertinent to this work.Chao Tu has no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose pertinent to this work.Ali Aminian has no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose pertinent to this work.James Young has no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose pertinent to this work.John Rodriguez has no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose pertinent to this work. Outside the scope of the work Dr. Rodriguez has received research support from Intuitive Surgical and Pacira Pharmacueticals.Matthew Kroh has no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose pertinent to this work. Outside the scope of this work Dr. Kroh serves as a consultant to Medtronic and Levita Magnetics.
: All data used in the preparation of this manuscript was obtained from a publically available national quality improvement database. There are no patient identifiers included in the publically available data, and thus, patient consent is not required.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of study, formal consent is not required.
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