Massaud, Rodrigo Meirelles http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6081-4271
da Silva, Marcelo Fiorelli Alexandrino http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0714-5291
Vaccari, Andreia Maria Heins http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3910-1709
Silva, Gisele Sampaio http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3247-3123
Wolosker, Nelson http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1991-3507
Article History
Received: 22 October 2021
Accepted: 30 December 2021
First Online: 22 January 2022
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee. The protocol used for patients was in accordance with the hospital’s ethical standards set by the Ethics Committee for Analysis of Research Projects on Human Experimentation.
: Our study was exempted from the requirement for informed consent because it employed a secondary database with de-identified data. The responsible researcher is committed to data confidentiality.
: The authors declare no competing interests.