Institutional Review Board approval or waiver
All study sites obtained Institutional Review Board approvals:
• UBC-Providence Health Care Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, #H11-00994, 06/24/11
• Providence Health and Services IRB, Portland, OR, #10-063B, 07/28/10
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre REB, Toronto, ON, #382-2007, 02/21/08
• Dignity Health IRB, Sacramento, CA, #033588, 11/17/11
• Atlantic Health IRB, Morristown, NJ, #R09-12-004 (455058), 01/07/10
• The Cooper Health System IRB, Camden, NJ, #09-190EX, 02/05/10
• Mountain Star St. Mark’s Hospital IRB, Salt Lake City, UT, #0221, 01/21/10
• MHH Ethics Committee 30623 Hannover, Germany, #5083, 08/22/08
• NHS National Research Ethics Committee, Papworth, Cambridge, UK, #08/H0304/34, 05/30/08
• NHS National Research Ethics Committee, Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, #08/H0304/34, 07/23/08
• Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain, #892, 02/26/08
• Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, #1913/07, 12/04/07
• Ethics Committee of the Medical University Innsbruck A-6020, Innsbruck, Austria, #EK 1 25.09.07, 01/29/08
• Western IRB, Olympia, WA, (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ), #20110574