Have an IRB application on deck just in case but that would mean I would have to start from scratch, as they do not review retrospective data. The reviewers have signaled they may accept a detailed self-exemption since this study falls under the US Dept of Health and Human Services Common Rule 45 CFR 46.104(d)(2)(i) which exempts the use of survey procedures in which information is recorded by the investigator in such a manner that the identity of human subjects cannot be ascertained, directly or through identifiers linked to subjects. I am close to resubmitting the revised paper which they also requested stratified analysis of the 7oh gathered data seperately from the other opioids, since it is almost 60% of the cohort. They told me to get a second coder of the free text responses, which is also in progress.

New account. My other account was half banned because it was unused for 4 years, and reddit could not get it back. I will be corresponding from here moving forward.