Pittman, James O. E. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9155-2983
Afari, Niloofar
Floto, Elizabeth
Almklov, Erin
Conner, Susan
Rabin, Borsika
Lindamer, Laurie
Funding for this research was provided by:
Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation (Not applicable)
Article History
Received: 5 March 2019
Accepted: 16 August 2019
First Online: 28 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This project was retrospectively reviewed by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the VA San Diego Healthcare System (protocol reference HRD180077) and deemed not research because the work was originally completed as a quality improvement project (QIP) prior to developing a manuscript. Since this project was originally conducted as a QIP and the results were deidentified and aggregated by setting, written consent was not required. All participants were notified of the project’s purpose and need to audio record. Confidentiality agreement and verbal assent was given by each participant. Since the project was deemed not research, IRB review of these procedures was not necessary.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.