The study was not considered human research according to the review policy of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital institutional review board because all data were deidentified and publicly available.
出处：Trends in Suicide Among Youth Aged 10 to 19 Years in the United States, 1975 to 2016
JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(5):e193886. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.3886
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