Sharma, Ashish http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-6151
Madapu, Apoorva
Rakholiya, Jigisha
Sharma, Shivy
Jha, Anil
Article History
Accepted: 13 January 2021
First Online: 22 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: We have read and have abided by the statement of ethical standards for manuscript submitted to the <i>European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology</i>. The data has been taken from Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which is a deidentified database from the “Healthcare Utilization Project (HCUP)” sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, so informed consent or IRB approval was not needed for the study. The relevant ethical oversight and HCUP Data Use Agreement were obtained for the study.
: The authors declare no conflict of interest.