Segev, Yakir
Lavie, Ofer
Stein, Nili
Saliba, Walid
Samuels, Noah
Shalabna, Eiman
Raz, Orit Gressel
Schiff, Elad
Ben-Arye, Eran https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4058-3672
Article History
Received: 16 September 2020
Accepted: 16 December 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study protocol of the retrospective study comparing the three study groups was approved by the Ethics Review Board (Helsinki Committee) at the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel (CMC-17-0091). Additional data obtained for the AIC and non-AIC groups was included in an additional prospective study protocol which was approved separately by the Ethics Review Board (Helsinki Committee) of the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel and was registered at (NCT01860365).
: Participation in this study was voluntary and verified by participants’ consent (participants included in the prospective section of the study).
: N/A, no limitation.
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