Ball, Sherry L.
Weiner, Saul J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5637-5392
Schwartz, Alan
Altman, Lisa
Binns-Calvey, Amy
Chan, Carolyn
Falck-Ytter, Corinna
Frenchman, Meghana
Gee, Bryan
Jackson, Jeffrey L.
Jordan, Neil
Kass, Benjamin
Kelly, Brendan
Safdar, Nasia
Scholcoff, Cecilia
Sharma, Gunjan
Subramaniam, Soumya
Weaver, Frances
Wopat, Maria
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (IIR 15-452 (HSR&D))
Article History
Received: 19 September 2020
Accepted: 20 August 2021
First Online: 30 August 2021
Declarations
:
: This study was approved by the VA Central Institutional Review Board (i.e. ethics committee). The Board approved a waiver of documentation of informed consent, however all subjects provided verbal consent. The Board determined that there was not a need for documentation of informed consent because the research involved no more than minimal risk of harm to participants and involved no procedures for which written consent is normally required outside the research context. Participants were provided with an ethics committee approved informational document prior to their participation.
: Not applicable. This publication does not contain any individual’s details, images, audios, or other identifiers.
: The authors receive or have received salary or grant funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs wherein were the sites for this study. They declare that they have no other potential competing interests.