Kawai, Shinichi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3996-0039
Sobajima, Satoshi
Jinnouchi, Masashi
Nakano, Hideshi
Ohtani, Hideaki
Sakata, Mineo
Adachi, Takeshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical
Article History
Accepted: 6 March 2022
First Online: 18 April 2022
Declarations
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: This study was funded by Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
: Shinichi Kawai, Satoshi Sobajima, and Masashi Jinnouchi have received research grants from Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Hideshi Nakano, Hideaki Ohtani, Mineo Sakata, and Takeshi Adachi are employees of Nippon Zoki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the institutional review boards at all 24 participating institutions.
: All patients provided written informed consent. The following investigators gave consent to be named in this report: Atsuyoshi Samura (Hanazono Orthopedic Internal Medicine, Saitama), Akira Kobayashi (Kobayashi Orthopedics, Saitama), Michio Inoue (Inoue Orthopedics, Saitama), Hisayuki Izaki (Otakibashi Orthopedics, Tokyo), Shinichi Yamaguchi (Gonohashi Clinic, Tokyo), Masahiro Ishii (Sakaue Orthopedic Plastic Clinic, Tokyo), Masashi Jinnouchi (Nishi Waseda Orthopedic Surgery, Tokyo), Hisayuki Miyajima (Meguro Yuai Clinic, Tokyo), Masayo Kato (Ando Orthopedics, Kanagawa), Hiroaki Shibata (Shibata Orthopedics, Kanagawa), Shinichi Katsuo (Fukui General Hospital, Fukui), Katsunori Mizuno (Fukui General Clinic, Fukui), Kiyoshi Miura (Kanai Hospital, Kyoto), Satoshi Sobajima (SOBAJIMA Clinic, Osaka), Shinichi Yamaguchi (Yamaguchi Clinic, Osaka), Takehiro Nishimura (Suita Municipal Hospital, Osaka).
: Not applicable.
: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: Not applicable.
: Data curation: M. Sakata, T. Adachi. Formal analysis: T. Adachi. Investigation: S. Sobajima, M. Jinnouchi. Methodology: S. Kawai, H. Ohtani, M. Sakata, T. Adachi. Project administration: H. Ohtani. Resources: S. Sobajima, M. Jinnouchi. Supervision: S. Kawai, H. Nakano, H. Ohtani. Visualization: H. Ohtani. Writing – original draft: S. Kawai, H. Nakano, H. Ohtani, M. Sakata, T. Adachi. Writing – review and editing: all authors.