Iizuka, Makito
Kobayashi, Masaaki
Hasegawa, Yoshimasa
Tomita, Kazuhide
Takeshima, Reiko
Izumizaki, Masahiko
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (26350663)
Article History
Received: 27 July 2017
Accepted: 20 February 2018
First Online: 5 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: M Iizuka is employed at Showa University and has filed a patent application for the swallowing function evaluation instrument (Japanese patent application No. 2017-24592). The authors have no conflicts of interest directly relevant to the content of the present study.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. All procedures were approved by the Ethical Committee of Showa University (Approval No. 2000) and the Ethical Committee of Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences (Approval No. 697).