All patients signed informed consent and provided consent for publication.
All authors have provided consent for publication.
After explanation of procedures 18-year-old subjects provided written informed consent for participation; those <18 years old provided written assent and parents provided consent.
Patients have provided consent.
HCWs provided consent for blood samples.
Children provided assent, and their caregivers provided consent.
Subjects who provided consent, provided baseline data, and completed the PRO measures were included in the analyses reported here.
Participants who were 12 to 17 years old and their parents provided informed consent; participants who were 7 to 11 years old provided assent and their parents provided consent; and, parents provided informed consent for those <7 years old.
The study received institutional review board approval (Schulman Associates IRB, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio; 27 Feb 2012 a) and all participants provided written consent prior to participating in the studies (adolescents provided assent; their caregivers provided consent).
All patients and their families provided informed consent; parents or guardians provided consent for young children.
Those who agreed to participate in the study were asked to provide written informed consent (legal representatives provided consent for patients <18 years of age).
