Otsuka, Kengo
Fukunaga, Koichi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7460-1990
WakakoYamasawa,
Haraguchi, Mizuha
Tani, Tetsuo
Shirahama, Ryutaro
Betsuyaku, Tomoko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fukuda Foundation for Medical Technology (2)
Teijin Pharma (1)
Philips respironic (3)
Article History
Received: 18 December 2018
Revised: 20 May 2019
Accepted: 13 June 2019
First Online: 6 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: KO, KF, MH, TT, and TB were supported by funds donated by Teijin Home Healthcare Limited (Japan), Fukuda Denshi (Japan), and Philips Respironics (Japan). However, these companies had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, or preparation of the manuscript. The other authors declare that that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
: 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.This study protocol (No. 2015043) was approved by the institutional review board of each participating institution.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.