Wetzell, Bradley http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2723-5542
McLean, Julie B.
Dorsch, Kimberly
Moore, Mark A.
Article History
Received: 8 September 2021
Accepted: 3 November 2021
First Online: 18 November 2021
Declarations
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: Patient data for this study were considered deidentified in accordance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule described in Title 45 of the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 164.506(d)(2)(ii)(B) and are exempt from Institutional Review Board oversight, as provided in 45 CFR 46.101(b)(4).
: Not applicable.
: BW, JBM, MAM, and KD are employees of LifeNet Health®, the non-profit organization which funded the study. However, potential bias was minimized through a study design where real-world data were retrospectively obtained from a third-party database, which allows for evidence- and population-based analyses of drugs, devices, other treatments, disease states, epidemiology, resource utilization, healthcare economics, and clinical outcomes.