Moreno Velásquez, Ilais http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6058-8983
Castelpietra, Giulio
Higuera, Gladys
Castro, Franz
Gómez, Beatriz
Motta, Jorge
Goti, Ricardo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministerio de Economia y Finanzas (MEF) Panama
Article History
Received: 27 February 2020
Accepted: 9 June 2020
First Online: 15 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declared that they have no conflict of interest.
: Ethical approval to conduct the study was obtained from the Ethics Review Committee of the Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies (No. 754/CBI/ICGES/18 and No. 708/CBI/ICGES/19). Permission to conduct the study was obtained from the Ministry of Health of Panama and the medical director of the participating hospital.
: Data was retrieved from hospital and mortality registries.