Kacerauskiene, Justina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3801-5561
Minkauskiene, Meile
Mahmood, Tahir
Bartuseviciene, Egle
Railaite, Dalia R.
Bartusevicius, Arnoldas
Kliucinskas, Mindaugas
Nadisauskiene, Ruta J.
Smigelskas, Kastytis
Maciuliene, Kornelija
Drasutiene, Grazina
Ramasauskaite, Diana
Article History
Received: 13 June 2018
Accepted: 10 October 2018
First Online: 25 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Based on the Helsinki declaration, an authorisation from the Kaunas Region Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (No.BE-2-8) was obtained. Permissions to collect the data were obtained from each of the hospitals and the national database of the Lithuanian Hygiene Institute provided the study investigator with missing data. The data used in this study were anonymised and individual informed consent from participants was not required.
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