Chen, Peixv
Yu, Yali
He, Li
Zhang, Chunyi
Li, Yiting
Wu, Di
Chen, Ying
Wang, Ran
Xu, Guopeng
Cao, Chao
Article History
Received: 22 August 2023
Accepted: 3 December 2023
First Online: 19 January 2024
Declarations
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
: This retrospective study was conducted through the collection of medical records. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, which was the lead unit (approval no. 2023-058RS-1); the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (approval no. PJ 2023–07-55); and the Ethics Committee of Jingzhou Hospital Affiliated with Yangtze University (approval no. 2023–034-01). The other two hospitals (the Ningbo Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University) adopted the ethics approval documents of the leading unit. The study was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Because of the retrospective nature of our study, the ethical review committee waived the requirement for informed consent.
: Not applicable.