Gifford, Jeneen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4959-6728
Vaeth, Elisabeth
Richards, Katherine
Siddiqui, Tariq
Gill, Christine
Wilson, Lucy
DeLisle, Sylvain
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (SHP-08-162, IIR 06-119-1)
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Article History
Received: 14 September 2016
Accepted: 14 July 2017
First Online: 31 July 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This project was approved by the VAMHCS Research & Development Committee, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) Institutional Review Board (IRB), and the IRB for the University of Maryland, Baltimore (Protocol HP-00052745). Patient records and information were anonymized and de-identified prior to analysis. The IRB for the University of Maryland, Baltimore, specifically granted a waiver of consent as the research-related risks were limited to information confidentiality and because the study would not otherwise have been feasible given the large number of participants.
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