Vozoris, Nicholas T. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1670-1592
Yao, Zhan
Li, Ping
Austin, Peter C.
Stephenson, Anne L.
Gill, Sudeep S.
O’Donnell, Denis E.
Gershon, Andrea S.
Rochon, Paula A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Lung Association - Ontario (n/a)
Article History
First Online: 24 September 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: This research was funded by a Grant from the Lung Association—Ontario Grant Review/Grant-In-Aid. The funder had no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; or in the writing of the article and the decision to submit it for publication. All authors are independent from the funder.
: All authors have completed the Author Declaration Form. NTV, ZY, PL, PCA, ALS, SSG, DEO, ASG and PAR declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the St. Michael’s Hospital Research Ethics Board (approval #16-378), the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Research Ethics Board (approval # not available), and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: This article does not contain any studies involving animals performed by any of the authors.
: Permission to undertake this retrospective study without informed consent was granted by the St. Michael’s Hospital Research Ethics Board (approval #16-378) and the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Research Ethics Board (approval # not available).