Hubert, Sidonie
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Wainschtein, Sarah
Hugues, Albane
Schimpf, Caroline
Degroote, Thècle
Tiercelet, Kelly
Tran, Marc
Bruel, Cédric
Philippart, Francois http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7323-0742
Article History
Received: 9 May 2018
Accepted: 11 March 2019
First Online: 18 March 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: According to French law, this survey was a non-interventional study. Its non-interventional nature does not require submission to a mandatory ethics committee. As such we have no IRB number. However, the study was presented to an ethic commission in our hospital, which did not request any changes. It did not require consent but simply “non-opposition” from participants. Since the survey was done remotely, we add before the start of the survey a first paragraph indicating the aim of the survey and the possibility of the reader not to take part to the survey. We also indicated that data obtained in the survey will be analyzed and published in a scientific journal. Participants were considered not to oppose the study if they answered the questionnaire without necessity to collect a formal agreement (“non-opposition”).As a survey for physicians, our work did not need to be submitted to a national ethics committee. This point was however confirmed by our local ethics committee. As such we do not have an IRB.The “non-opposition” method correspond used in our study is the usual methodology recommended for such studies (non-interventional studies; cf. reference in previous response to reviewers) by French law. As such there was no need of specific approval of ethics committee.
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