Litaker, Mark S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6869-3857
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Kopycka-Kedzierawski, Dorota T.
Rindal, D. Brad
Fellows, Jeffrey L.
Heft, Marc W.
Meyerowitz, Cyril
Chonowski, Sidney
Gilbert, Gregg H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (U19-DE-22516)
Article History
Received: 3 May 2018
Accepted: 26 April 2019
First Online: 14 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the University of Rochester Research Subject Review Board (approval number RSRB 00053321) and also by the IRBs of the remaining five study sites, as follows: The University of Florida Health Center Institutional Review Board, The UT Health Science Center San Antonio Institutional Review Board, Kaiser Permanente Northwest Institutional Review Board, HealthPartners Institute for Education & Research, and The University of Alabama at Birmingham Office of the Institutional Review Board for Human Use.The informed consent of all human subjects who participated in this investigation was obtained after the nature of the procedures had been explained fully. As per regional IRB requirements written informed consents were used in the Midwest, South Atlantic and Northeast regions of the network and verbal informed consents were used in South Central, Western and Southwestern regions of the network. The use of verbal informed consent was approved by The University of Alabama at Birmingham Office of the Institutional Review Board for Human Use for the South Central Region; by the UT Health Science Center San Antonio Institutional Review Board for the Southwest Region; and by Kaiser Permanente Northwest Institutional Review Board for the Western Region.
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