Article History
Received: 28 June 2021
Accepted: 22 September 2021
First Online: 13 August 2022
Declarations
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: The authors report no conflict of interest. We had full control of all primary data and we agree to allow the Journal to review this data, if requested.
: This study exclusively used data from an existing administrative database. These data were publicly available; hence, according to the Tri-Council Policy statement (2018), institutional review board approval was not required.
: This study used publicly available data; hence, we did not personally obtain informed consent from study subjects. This would be the responsibility of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), who sponsors the National Inpatient Sample.