Pladys, Adélaïde http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4500-7869
Bayat, Sahar
Couchoud, Cécile
Vigneau, Cécile
McDonald, Stephen
Article History
Received: 14 September 2018
Accepted: 3 April 2019
First Online: 7 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Subjects involved in our study were extracted from the French REIN registry that received the agreement by the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Information et des Libertés) in 2010 (agreement number: 903188 Version 3). All involved subjects received an information leaflet before giving their verbal consent to participate. This procedure was approved by the ethics committee. This study was approved by the French Biomedecine Agency and by the ANZDATA registry. This study included patients’ data that were anonymized and de-identified directly in the database and before the extraction for analysis.
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: Cecile Couchoud is a member of the Editorial Board of BMC Nephrology. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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