Ilic, Ljubomir M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-8325
Davis, Roger B.
Brown, Robert S.
Lecker, Stewart H.
Article History
Received: 9 November 2017
Accepted: 9 August 2018
First Online: 16 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Studies were approved by Committee on Clinical Investigations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and were registered under IRB Protocol #: 2016P000052. Verbal consent was used in Study 1 which involved chart review only and written consent was obtained in Study 2 which required two small blood draws. In Study 3, the IRB approved a waiver of informed consent due to the retrospective nature of the study which involved only chart review of patient data which were deidentified.
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