Tanaka, Mai http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5172-594X
Nishiwaki, Hiroki
Kado, Hiroshi
Doi, Yohei
Ihoriya, Chieko
Omae, Kenji
Tamagaki, Keiichi
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Institute for Health Outcomes and Process Evaluation research (KJ14-02)
Article History
Received: 14 September 2018
Accepted: 27 March 2019
First Online: 5 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Omihachiman Community Medical Center and Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (approval no.ERB-C-388).We obtained written informed consent from all patients.
: We obtained written informed consent for publication from all patients.
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