Lian, Jie
Huang, Fan
Huang, Xinhai
Lau, Kitty Yu-Yeung
Ng, Kei Shing
Chu, Carlin Chun Fai
Lam, Simon Ching
Koohli-Moghadam, Mohamad
Vardhanabhuti, Varut
Article History
Received: 10 April 2024
Accepted: 1 August 2024
First Online: 9 August 2024
Declarations
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: This study protocol was approved by multi-institutional review boards in multiple hospitals across Hong Kong HKU/Hong Kong West Cluster Research Ethics Committee (Ref. UW 20–291), Hong Kong East Cluster Research Ethics Committee (HKECREC-2020-012), Kowloon Central/Kowloon East Cluster Research Ethics Committee (KC/KE-20-0052/ER-3), Kowloon West Cluster Research Ethics Committee (Ref. KW/EX-20-065), CUHK/New Territories East Cluster Clinical Research Ethics Committee (Ref. 2020.216), and New Territories West Cluster Research Ethics Committee (NTWC/REC/20048). Due to the retrospective nature of the study, the various ethics committee approved data usage and informed consent was waived for the patients used in this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.