,
Chung, Kevin K.
Coates, Elsa C.
Smith, David J. Jr
Karlnoski, Rachel A.
Hickerson, William L.
Arnold-Ross, Angela L.
Mosier, Michael J.
Halerz, Marcia
Sprague, Amy M.
Mullins, Robert F.
Caruso, Daniel M.
Albrecht, Marlene
Arnoldo, Brett D.
Burris, Agnes M.
Taylor, Sandra L.
Wolf, Steven E.
Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (W81XWH-09-2-0194)
Article History
Received: 12 August 2017
Accepted: 30 October 2017
First Online: 25 November 2017
Authors’ information
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: The study was approved in a multilevel institutional review process. The core protocol was initially reviewed by the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Institutional Review Board (IRB) and reviewed again for final approval by the Army Human Research Protection Office (AHRPO). The core protocol was then submitted to each participating site’s local IRB with site-specific addendums and approved again by AHRPO. All amendments to the core protocol required multilevel review with final approval by the AHRPO. A list of IRBs for each specific site is listed in Additional file . Informed consent was obtained from all participating subjects through their surrogates.
: All authors gave final approval of the final manuscript to be published.
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