Chung, Gary
Hinoul, Piet
Coplan, Paul
Yoo, Andrew
Funding for this research was provided by:
Johnson and Johnson
Article History
Received: 27 February 2020
Accepted: 9 June 2020
First Online: 20 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Gary Chung is an employee of Johnson and Johnson, Inc which sponsored this study. Piet Hinoul is an employee of Ethicon, Inc which sponsored this study. Paul Coplan is an employee of Johnson and Johnson, Inc which sponsored this study. Andrew Yoo is an employee of Johnson and Johnson, Inc which sponsored this study.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
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