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Zia, Faizan
Cosic, Luka
Wong, Angela
Levin, Adam
Lu, Patrick
Mitchell, Craig
Shaw, Michael
Rosewarne, Fred
Weinberg, Laurence http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7403-7680
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Article History
Received: 19 October 2019
Accepted: 21 December 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was considered exempt for ethical approval for the first part under the basis of being completed as an audit. This SMS intervention was considered exempt for ethical approval under the basis of being a quality improvement project. We received ethics approval from the Ballarat Health Services and St John of God Hospital Ballarat Human Research Ethics Committee for both parts of this study (HREC/12/BHSSJOG/76) prior to publication. Verbal consent was obtained from participants prior to the SMS intervention. Verbal consent was approved by the Ballarat Health Services and St John of God Hospital Ballarat Human Research Ethics Committee as the intervention was deemed low risk. The Ballarat Health Services and St John of God Hospital Ballarat Human Research Ethics Committee also granted permission for the patients’ medical records to be accessed.
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: The authors declare they have no competing interests.
