Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1 TR001860 / KL2 TR001859)
Article History
Received: 2 September 2022
Revised: 16 December 2022
Accepted: 21 December 2022
First Online: 30 December 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This research was conducted in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
: Written informed consent was obtained from a parent/legal guardian for subjects to participate in the TOBI (Treatment and Outcomes of Brachial plexus Injury) registry. As part of the consent form, patients/parents were informed that the data collected would be used to provide valuable information about long-term outcomes of BPBI in order to inform better treatment options for patients in the future. For this reason the Institutional Review Board at Boston Children’s Hospital determined that the present study using data from the TOBI registry met the regulatory requirements necessary in order to obtain a waiver of informed consent/authorization.
: This study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at Boston Children’s Hospital, protocol number IRB-P00034806.