Funding for this research was provided by:
The University of Tokyo
Article History
Received: 7 April 2024
Accepted: 21 August 2024
First Online: 5 September 2024
Declarations
:
: There are no conflicts of interest.
: This study was conducted under the approval of the ethics committee of Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The requirement of obtaining informed consent was waived by the ethics committee due to the anonymization of personal information and the retrospective nature of the study. Patients were given the opportunity to opt out via a notice posted in the institution.