Risk prediction model for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in adult cardiac allograft recipients
Nandini Nair, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, United States
Zhiyong Hu, Dongping Du, Department of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, United States
Enrique Gongora, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, United States
Author contributions: Nair N, Du D and Hu Z participated in the data acquisition, research design, data analysis, and the writing of the paper; Gongora E contributed to conception of the research idea.
Supported by National Science Foundation, No. CMMI-1728338.
Institutional review board statement: This is to certify that this study was done on a public database with decoded data and no patient identifiable information. The database was provided by the United Network of Organ Sharing. Hence the study is exempted from the Institutional Review Board review.
Informed consent statement: The study used a decoded database provided by the United Network of Organ sharing with no patient identifiers hence there was no requirement for informed consent. This was a retrospective database analysis.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None of the authors have any conflict of interest with respect to this research work.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
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http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Nandini Nair, MD, PhD, Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, TX 79430, United States. nandini.nair@ttuhsc.edu
Received: September 6, 2020
Peer-review started: September 6, 2020
First decision: December 1, 2020
Revised: December 25, 2020
Accepted: February 19, 2021
Article in press: February 19, 2021
Published online: March 18, 2021