Vohra, Rini http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6322-8091
Madhavan, Suresh
Sambamoorthi, Usha
StPeter, Claire
Poe, Susannah
Dwibedi, Nilanjana
Ajmera, Mayank
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U54GM104942, U54GM104942)
Article History
First Online: 21 November 2016
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Informed consent was not required for the current study which did not involve direct patient data collection. The study was exempted from the West Virginia Institutional Review Board. The research proposal for Medicaid database use was reviewed and successfully approved by Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services under a data user agreement policy.
: Authors SM and US were partially funded by an IDeA-CTR award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, U54GM104942. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or the policy or position of West Virginia University (WVU) or any other affiliated organizations. All authors approved the final manuscript as submitted.
: All authors, including RV, SM, US, CS, SP, ND, and MA, declare that there are no conflicts of interest for this research work.