Article History
Received: 28 February 2021
Accepted: 22 November 2021
First Online: 11 December 2021
Declarations
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: On 5/31/18, the Institutional Review Boards of the University of Michigan Medical School (IRBMED) gave a Notice of Determination of “Not Regulated” Status for our study designated HUM00146457, thereby not requiring informed consent, though each participant in our study was verbally consented for participation in which consent was recorded and transcribed as part of our data collection process. This designation was given because the proposed study fell under the University of Michigan’s policy for research using publicly available data sets (ExternalRef removed), namely the USNWR Honor Roll list. Under this policy and in accordance with federal regulations for human subjects’ research (45 CFR Part 46) IRBMED approval is not required as the data cannot be tracked to a human subject. Additionally, based on the information provided, IRBMED approval is not required for this project, as it does not include identifiable private information about individual members, employees or staff of the organization that is the subject of the research, as each interviewee and their institutional affiliation remains confidential.
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