Xu, Chuancai
He, Zhisong
Lei, Wei
Chen, Li
Shen, Dan
Wang, Xiaofei
Xu, Deyu
Xu, Ying
Huang, Jian’an
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Gusu youth medical talent (GSWS2020017)
the Societal and Developmental Project of Suzhou City (SYS2020008)
the Clinical Medical Expert Team project of Suzhou City (No. SZYJTD201801)
the Jiangsu Provincial Key Medical Discipline (No. ZDXKB2016007)
Article History
Received: 28 January 2022
Accepted: 17 October 2022
First Online: 9 November 2022
Declarations
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: Our research was granted an ethics exemption from the ethics committee of the Yangzhou Third People’s Hospital for it was retrospective and non-interventional. The study was based on existing data collected in the course of routine clinical practice and no additional risks are posed to patients. Therefore, the individual’s informed consent was waived by the above ethics committee. Due to the highly transmissible feature of COVID-19, in order to avoid the potential cross-infection, verbal informed consent was obtained from all patients, and the text of each patient’s verbal consent was recorded by the investigator in the patient’s medical records. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests in this study.