A review of this nature has never been attempted previously and it was therefore conducted to assess the evidence base on which to design and inform future policy outputs.
Sections include the introduction, study design, and informed consent.
The findings contributed to recent department re-design and informed an initiative to develop a business intelligence system for predicting impending occurrence of access block.
The local Ethics Committee approved the study design and informed written consent was obtained from all the patients.
The Hospital Ethics Committee approved the study design, and informed consent was waived because this was an observational study without any deviation from the current medical practice.
Choice experiment surveys with 1014 respondents were designed and conducted to inform this paper.
How should we use such models to design studies and inform drug labeling?
The Medical Ethical Committee of The Netherlands approved the study design, procedures and informed consent.
The study design, procedures and informed consent were approved by The University of Sydney Human Ethics Committee.
The Medical Ethics Committee of VU University Medical Centre at Amsterdam has approved the study design, protocols, and informed consent procedure.
The study design, procedures and informed consent procedure were approved by the Medical Ethics Committee (number 06/085) of the VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
