Waseda, Ryuichi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6326-4295
Yamamoto, Hiroyuki
Shintani, Yasushi
Sato, Toshihiko
Suzuki, Kenji
Maniwa, Yoshimasa
Sato, Yukio
Yoshino, Ichiro
Chida, Masayuki
Article History
Received: 29 November 2023
Accepted: 19 July 2024
First Online: 27 August 2024
Declarations
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: H.Y. is affiliated with the Department of Healthcare Quality Assessment at the University of Tokyo. The department is a social collaboration department supported by grants from the National Clinical Database, Intuitive Surgical Sarl, Johnson & Johnson K.K., and Nipro Co. Ltd. The remaining authors (R.W., Y.S., K.S., Y.M., Y.S., I.Y., M.C., and T.S.) have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Fukuoka University Hospital (No: H21-02-015).
: This study followed the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology guidelines for cohort studies.