McGarrigle, Lisa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0533-3029
Rockwood, Kenneth http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6674-995X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Mitacs (IT09427)
Article History
Received: 18 June 2019
Accepted: 13 April 2020
First Online: 12 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this type of secondary analysis formal consent is not required.
: Not applicable.
: LM received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Mitacs Elevate program and the Mitacs industrial co-sponsor is DGI Clinical, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. In addition to academic and hospital appointments, KR is President and Chief Science Officer of DGI Clinical, which in the last five years has contracts with pharma and device manufacturers (Baxter, Baxalta, Biogen, Shire, Hollister, Nutricia, Roche, Otsuka) on individualized outcome measurement. In 2017 he attended an advisory board meeting with Lundbeck. Otherwise any personal fees are for invited guest lectures, rounds and academic symposia, received directly from event organizers, for presentations on frailty. He is Associate Director of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging, which is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CNA-137794), with additional funding from the Alzheimer Society of Canada and several other charities, as well as from Pfizer Canada and Sanofi Canada (in Phase 1, 2014-2019).