Lai, Wenguang
Xie, Yun
Zhao, Xiaoli
Xu, Xiayan
Yu, Sijia
Lu, Hongyu
Huang, Haozhang
Li, Qiang
Xu, Jun-Yan
Liu, Jin
Chen, Shiqun
Liu, Yong
Article History
Received: 14 July 2022
Accepted: 13 October 2022
First Online: 9 November 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial/non-financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest, and all authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
: All traceable personal identifiers were removed from the analytic dataset to protect patients’ privacy. The study protocol was approved by Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital ethics committee, and all participating sites received institutional review board approval from their own ethics committees. The study was performed according to the declaration of Helsinki. Since our research included retrospective cases, there was no additional intervention, and information of all patients was desensitized, and no informed consent was required.