Sasaki, Toru
Horiguchi, Hyogo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8844
Arakawa, Akira
Oguma, Etsuko
Komatsuda, Atsushi
Sawada, Kenichi
Murata, Katsuyuki
Yokoyama, Kazuhito
Matsukawa, Takehisa
Chiba, Momoko
Omori, Yuki
Kamikomaki, Norihiro
Article History
Received: 24 October 2018
Accepted: 16 January 2019
First Online: 26 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The objectives and content of this research, management of personal information, and anonymity of answers were all explained in writing, and written consent was received. The Committees on Medical Ethics of Akita Rosai Hospital and Akita University approved the research protocol, and we performed the study in accordance with the ethical guidelines for epidemiological research presented by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare as well as the ethical standards laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki by the World Medical Association.
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