Liu, Qiang
Fu, Yawen
Zhang, Zhuo
Li, Ping
Nie, Hu
Funding for this research was provided by:
1.3.5 Project for Disciplines of Excellence - Clinical Research Incubation Project, West China Hospital, Sichuan University under Grant (2021HXFH004)
Article History
Received: 21 August 2023
Accepted: 3 December 2023
First Online: 18 January 2024
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The database was publicly accessible and anonymized to safeguard patient privacy. Approval from the Institutional Review Boards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA) was obtained to waive the requirement for informed consent. The author accessed the database by completing the National Institutes of Health web-based course on the Protection of Human Research Participants (Certificate No. 48552260).