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Authors
Missaghi, Bayan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2926-9383
Malik, Muhammad Wasif
Shaukat, Waseem
Ranjha, Muazam Abbas
Ikram, Aamer
Barkema, Herman W.
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Article History
Received: 31 March 2022
Accepted: 10 November 2022
First Online: 26 November 2022
Declarations
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: As all data were completely de-identified and de-coupled from individual patient-level data, neither ethical approval nor patient consent was required. Permission was obtained from the Government of Pakistan MoNHSR&C prior to conducting the study. As per the Pakistan National Bioethics Committee–Research Ethics Committee policy, 'studies that do not require direct human subject participants (e.g. chart review, already collected data for routine public health reasons, etc.) may be exempted from review' as was the case for our study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests with respect to this study.
