Toh, Yasushi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1568-7867
Yamamoto, Hiroyuki
Miyata, Hiroaki
Gotoh, Mitsukazu
Watanabe, Masayuki
Matsubara, Hisahiro
Kakeji, Yoshihiro
Seto, Yasuyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (201221064A)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16K10437, 19K09111)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2018
Accepted: 7 April 2019
First Online: 12 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions.
: Hiroaki Miyata and Hiroyuki Yamamoto are 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, Johnson & Johnson K.K., and Nipro Co. Other authors declare that they have no potential conflicts of interest in this manuscript.