Chauvin, Anthony http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8819-0061
Ravaud, Philippe
Moher, David
Schriger, David
Hopewell, Sally
Shanahan, Daniel
Alam, Sabina
Baron, Gabriel
Regnaux, Jean-Philippe
Crequit, Perrine
Martinez, Valeria
Riveros, Carolina
Le Cleach, Laurence
Recchioni, Alessandro
Altman, Douglas G.
Boutron, Isabelle
Article History
Received: 7 June 2019
Accepted: 27 September 2019
First Online: 19 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Authorization by the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (file no. 2021376), whose purpose is to protect participants’ personal data, and the institutional review board of the INSERM ethics committee (IRB 17–335) was obtained and the study protocol was registered at ExternalRef removed (ExternalRef removed, NCT03119376). Any changes or additions to the protocol were registered on ExternalRef removed.This research was done without patient involvement. Patients were not invited to comment on the study design and were not consulted to develop patient-relevant outcomes or interpret the results. Patients were not invited to contribute to the writing or editing of this document for readability or accuracy.
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: The authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form. Author AR is the Senior Editor of BMC Medicine and thus recused himself from the handling of this article at this journal. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.