Hirano, Hiroko
Ueda, Tomomi
Tani, Hirohiko
Kosaka, Kenzo
Nakatani, Eiji
Hawke, Philip
Mori, Kiyoshi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7285-8351
Mori, Noriko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (19K08682)
Article History
Received: 23 January 2021
Accepted: 16 August 2021
First Online: 30 September 2021
Declarations
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This retrospective study (registered as UMIN000032324) was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Shizuoka General Hospital (Approval Number SGHIRB#2016090) and conformed to the ethical guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration. Respective dialysis units did not require approval from their own ethical committees as only pre-existing data on individuals was collected anonymously and sent to our hospital.
: The second, detailed questionnaire was administered only if patients or their proxies gave written informed consent for participation.
: Not applicable.