Tazawa, Miyako
Nawa, Nobutoshi
Yamauchi, Shinichi
Tokunaga, Masanori
Fushimi, Kiyohide
Kinugasa, Yusuke
Fujiwara, Takeo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grant-in-Aid for Research on Policy Planning and Evaluation from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan (22AA2003)
Article History
Received: 3 April 2024
Accepted: 25 June 2024
First Online: 20 August 2024
Declarations
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: YK (Yusuke Kinugasa) is an editorial member of Surgery Today. We have no conflicts of interest to declare for this article. We have no financial relationships relevant to this study to disclose.
: The protocol for this research project was approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee of the institution and conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki. Committee of Medical Research Institute Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Approval No. M2000-788. The need to obtain informed consent was waived because the data were anonymized.