Beckenstrater, Michael A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8272-7032
Gamieldien, Mohamed Y.
Smit, Chane
Buchanan, Glynn D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Pretoria
Article History
Received: 3 September 2023
Accepted: 3 January 2024
First Online: 9 February 2024
Declarations
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: None.
: Ethical approval was obtained from the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria (Ethics reference number: 428/2021). Research was conducted in accordance with the ‘General ethical guidelines for health researchers’ of the Health Professions Council of South Africa.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5). A waiver of informed consent was obtained from the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria for all patients included in the study.