Zhu, Siyuan
Li, Xinning
Wu, Jia-Lin
Bao, Lei
Wang, Peng
Gu, Haifeng
Wang, Chenglong
Wang, Jianhua http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6831-9593
Article History
Received: 3 December 2020
Accepted: 5 March 2021
First Online: 9 April 2021
Declarations
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: All the authors have no potential conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (Shanghai, China, No.XHEC-D-2020–108).
: All the patients enrolled in this study have signed the broad consent, which permits the researchers to engage in research use of patients’ identifiable data during the hospitalisation period and future follow-up without the requirement to obtain additional consents for the future storage, maintenance, or research usage, so long as the future activities are within the scope of the broad consent. The study protocol as well as the application form were fully reviewed, and we have certified that this study does not raise any issues of patient risk or cause any harm to patients. We have also certified that the study was strictly in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans.