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Tanishima, Shinji https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8137-4658
Mihara, Tokumitsu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3505-7966
Takeda, Chikako https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0895-9940
Fujiwara, Satoshi
Nagashima, Hideki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2896-8406
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Received: 4 February 2024
Revised: 29 March 2024
Accepted: 18 April 2024
First Online: 1 May 2024
Declarations
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: There are no competing interests.
: The Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of Tottori University (approval No. 21A142).
: We used the opt-out method to obtain consent from the patients to participate in this study. However, some patients died before the study. Hence, informed consent was not obtained. The Tottori University Ethics Committee has decided to exclude the data of the patients who died if the patients’ family refuses to provide consent based on the opt-out method. In fact, there were no cases waived by the families’ offer.
