The medical ethics committee or institutional review boards (when appropriate) of all participating centers approved this study (see Additional file 1: 'Ethical approval Prepare-2 study').
In the past two years, about half of the 370 infertility centers approved by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology have expanded their psychological services by hiring psychologists, starting support groups and holding programs and stress-reduction workshops, according to Resolve, a national infertility support organization.
Of the four arbitration and mediation centers approved by Icann, the World Intellectual Property Organization hears most of the cases, followed by the National Arbitration Forum in Minneapolis; Disputes.org/ eResolutions Consortium in Amherst, Mass., and Montreal; and C.P.R Institute for Dispute Resolutions in New York.
IRBs and Ethical Committee of all centers approved data collection and the study.
Ethics Committee at both participating centers approved the study protocol and informed consent was obtained according to Italian regulations.
The research ethics boards of all 27 participating centers approved the VASST (Current Controlled Trials number, ISRCTN94845869).
The ethical and the scientific committees of all five Headache Centers approved the study protocol and all patients signed a consent form.
Separate Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) at Harvard's three largest affiliated health centers approved use of their data, and the Harvard Medical School IRB approved building a Query Aggregator Interface that can simultaneously send queries to each hospital and display aggregate counts of the number of matching patients.
Institutional review boards at the U.S. National Cancer Institute and the 10 screening centers approved the PLCO protocol.
The Institutional Review Board of the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), as well as those of the other CAMP study centers, approved this study.
The Institutional Review Boards at both the James J. Peters VA Medical Center and the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System (which includes both the NY and Brooklyn medical centers) approved of this study.
