Boon, Yuru
Kuan, Win Sen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2134-7842
Chan, Yiong Huak
Ibrahim, Irwani
Chua, Mui Teng http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6326-4914
Funding for this research was provided by:
National University Hospital Singapore (JPFF-15-2-BYR)
Article History
Received: 7 March 2019
Accepted: 13 July 2019
First Online: 18 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
: 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.
: Written informed consent was obtained from patients who have mental capacity before study recruitment. For patients who were unable to provide consent, we obtained waiver of consent at time of enrolment with delayed written informed consent after the patient regained mental capacity. The study protocol was approved by the Domain Specific Review Board, National Healthcare Group, Singapore (DSRB 2015/00904).