*Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
†Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
‡Departments of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH
§Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
¶The Department of Neurosurgery
‖The Spine Center, and
**The Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor and Neurooncology Center, The Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; and
††Department of Neurosurgery, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Andreea Seicean, MPH, PhD, c/o ND4-40 LRI/Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44195; E-mail: [email protected]
Acknowledgment date: September 23, 2013. First revision date: March 2, 2014. Second revision date: April 29, 2014. Acceptance date: April 29, 2014
The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device(s)/drug(s).
The Melvin Burkhardt chair in neurosurgical oncology, and the Karen Colina Wilson research endowment within the Brain Tumor and Neurooncology Center at the Cleveland Clinic funds were received to support the work of R.J.W., in part. The funders of this philanthropic support had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Relevant financial activities outside the submitted work: royalties.
