Morovatshoar, Reza http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0247-7924
Hushmandi, Kiavash
Orouei, Sara
Saadat, Seyed Hassan
Raesi, Rasoul http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5998-5209
Article History
Received: 6 January 2024
Accepted: 2 April 2024
First Online: 13 May 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were by the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, which issued the study’s code of ethics (IR.MUMS.REC.1401.050.).
: In this study, no intervention was performed on any of the patients. Also, there were no tissue samples in this research. Rather, only the information needed in this research was extracted from the medical files of the patients in the medical records unit of the hospital. Therefore, this study did not require a statement confirming that informed consent was obtained from all individuals and/or their legal guardian(s). To comply with ethical considerations in this research, the patient’s medical record information was kept confidential and other people could not access this information. The names and surnames of the participants were not used for data collection, and data collection was done after obtaining the code of ethics from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.
: The authors declare no conflict of interest, financial or otherwise.