Yeh, Hsin-Chih
Li, Ching-Chia
Chien, Tsu-Ming
Li, Chia-Yang
Cheng, Yen-Chen
Woldu, Solomon L.
Robyak, Haley
Huang, Chun-Nung
Ke, Hung-Lung
Li, Wei-Ming
Lee, Hsiang-Ying
Yeh, Bi-Wen
Yang, Sheau-Fang
Tu, Hung-Pin
Sagalowsky, Arthur I.
Raman, Jay D.
Singla, Nirmish
Margulis, Vitaly
Lotan, Yair
Hsieh, Jer-Tsong
Wu, Wen-Jeng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 105-2628-B-037-004-MY2)
Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital (KMUH105-5R45)
Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital (kmtth-103-054)
Article History
Received: 12 January 2020
Accepted: 8 April 2020
First Online: 21 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This retrospective study involving human participants was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The institutional review board of Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital approved this study (No. KMUHIRB-E(I)-20180214).
: A general exemption from the rule of informed consent was given by the institutional ethics committee because this research is at the lowest risk, the possible risk to the research subject is not more than that of the non-participants, and the waiver of prior consent does not affect the rights of the research subject.