Fraenkel, Liana
Lim, Joseph
Garcia-Tsao, Guadalupe
Reyna, Valerie
Monto, Alexander
Bridges, John F. P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Services Research and Development
Article History
First Online: 30 October 2015
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: This study was approved by the Veterans Administration Central Institutional Review Board and has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Drs. Fraenkel, Monto, and Bridges have no declaration of personal interests. Dr. Lim has served as consultant for Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead, Janssen, and Merck, and has received research funding from Abbott, Achillion, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead, and Janssen (paid to institution). Dr. Reyna has served on advisory groups, including committees of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychonomic Society, and other nonprofit organizations. She has been a paid consultant for Xerox. Dr. Garcia-Tsao has served as a consultant for Abbvie and Fibrogen, is Associate Editor for <i>Hepatology</i>, and serves on committees of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
: This study was funded in full by the VA Health Services and Research Department (IIR 10-131).
: Analyses were performed by Liana Fraenkel. All authors had a substantial role in the design of the study and writing the manuscript.
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