Tejera, Eduardo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1377-0413
Sánchez, Maria Eugenia
Henríquez-Trujillo, Aquiles R.
Pérez-Castillo, Yunierkis
Coral-Almeida, Marco
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universidad de Las Americas, Quito. Ecuador (MED.MES.17.02)
Article History
Received: 28 May 2020
Accepted: 28 January 2021
First Online: 9 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study uses public retrospective anonymized data from the INEC and MoH with no specific ethical issue to be considered. Additionally, a local ethics committee ruled that no formal ethics approval was required in this particular case. The letter form the ethical committee can be consulted if requested.
: Not applicable.
: The author reports no conflicts of interest in this work.