Honda, Kaori http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-5517
Murakami, Michio
Takebayashi, Yoshitake
Sakuma, Jun
Goto, Aya
Funding for this research was provided by:
KAKENHI (JP20H04354)
Article History
Received: 30 June 2022
Accepted: 9 September 2022
First Online: 1 October 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Fukushima Medical University (No. General 2020–277), and was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. We also obtained approvals from study sites.
: After an oral explanation of the study, receiving answers on survey sheets was considered as obtaining consent from family members. As for collecting medical information from patients, written consent was obtained. In case a patient was unable to give written consent due to health problems, proxy consent was obtained from a family member.
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