Block, Lauren
Flynn, Sarah J.
Cooper, Lisa A.
Lentz, Caroline
Hull, Tammie
Dietz, Katherine B.
Boonyasai, Romsai T.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (P50 HL0105187, K24 HL83113)
Article History
Received: 17 June 2016
Accepted: 8 December 2017
First Online: 10 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved and HIPAA waiver granted by the Institutional Review Board at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (NA_00037622) and the Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Education Committee. As the procedures were classified by the IRB as comprising quality improvement endeavors, written consent was not obtained. The IRB waived the need for written consent since the study was classified as quality improvement. All of the clinical staff members signed media release forms for participating in the videos. Verbal consent was obtained from the patients who were observed during intake. We had an IRB approved patient script for asking for permission to observe. As per the IRB approved CMA Observation Protocol, we did not receive consent from the MAs to observe them.
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