Lithgow, Kirstie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3140-6957
Chin, Alex
Debert, Chantel T.
Kline, Gregory A.
Article History
Received: 12 October 2017
Accepted: 20 March 2018
First Online: 2 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The authors declare that the procedures followed in this study were in accordance with the ethical approval s of the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (REB16–0355). Our study was granted waiver of consent by the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board on the grounds that contacting all patients was thought to be unfeasible (due to the study’s retrospective nature, we did not have up to date contact information for all participants) as well as the minimal risk of harm to participants given our study did not involve any direct interaction or procedures.
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