Tran, Hong Thi
Nguyen, Hoa Phuong
Walker, Sue M.
Hill, Peter S.
Rao, Chalapati
Article History
Received: 26 July 2017
Accepted: 30 April 2018
First Online: 18 May 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of Ha Noi Medical University, Vietnam (reference number 173/HMU-IRB) and the University of Queensland, Australia (reference number THT23062015). All personal information in the medical records was used only for study purposes and only accessed by the principal investigator for linkage with the VA database. It was then de-identified before data entry and data analysis.
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