Okonogi, Noriyuki
Karasawa, Kumiko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1628-8662
Nitta, Yuki
Mori, Yasumasa
Murata, Kazutoshi
Wakatsuki, Masaru
Tsuji, Hiroshi
Article History
Received: 16 February 2022
Accepted: 29 May 2022
First Online: 4 July 2022
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (N21-015. 13 Nov 2021).
: The need for written informed consent was waived because of the retrospective nature of the study. Instead, a document for an opt-out policy was uploaded to the webpage of the QST Hospital, which allowed any of the patients and their families to refuse to be included in the study.
: The need for written informed consent was waived because of the retrospective nature of the study. The document for an opt-out policy was uploaded on the webpage of the QST Hospital, which included the study outline and the policy that all data could be used as tables and figures. Our study allowed all patients and their families to refuse to be included in the study.