Li, Chih -Ying
Kim, Hyunkyoung
Downer, Brian
Lee, Mi Jung
Ottenbacher, Kenneth
Kuo, Yong-Fang
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health, United States (K01HD101589, K01AG058789, P2CHD065702, P2CHD065702)
Article History
Received: 9 February 2023
Accepted: 29 August 2023
First Online: 6 September 2023
Declarations
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: Authors confirm that all methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations (e.g. Declaration of Helsinki). This secondary data analysis research was approved by the institutional review board at the University of Texas Medical Branch (IRB # 16–0014) and also approved by the Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC) for Data Use Agreement with CMS. This project was submitted under exemption #4 (no direct human subjects) from the Institutional Review Board at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Informed consent was waived by the same ethics committee.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.