Siriwardhana, Chathura
Lim, Eunjung
Davis, James
Chen, John J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (U54MD007584, U54MD007601)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P20GM103466, U54GM104944)
Article History
Received: 23 January 2018
Accepted: 10 June 2018
First Online: 18 June 2018
Authors’ information
: Chathura Siriwardhana, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Eunjung Lim, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, James Davis, Ph.D. – Associate Professor, and John J. Chen, Ph.D. – Professor & Chair, Department of Complementary & Integrative Medicine, University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
: Ethics approval: The research protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Hawaii (CHS#23362). Consent to participate: Not applicable, since the study was conducted as a retrospective study, using Hawaii Medicare health insurance claims database.
: Not applicable, since the study was conducted as a retrospective study, using Hawaii Medicare health insurance claims database.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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